Book Title: Sachitra Tirthankar Charitra
Author(s): Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Padma Prakashan

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________________ सुपाच चन्द्रप्रभ GET शीतल श्रेयांस वासुपूज्य 8 ध्वजा पद्म सरोवर Last Calamity : Nails in the Ears After spending the twelfth monsoon-stay of his period of practices in Champa, Bhagavan Mahavir arrived outside a village named Chhammani and stood in meditation. It was dusk and a cowherd was returning home from his farm. When he saw Mahavir standing just outside his farm he said, "Ascetic ! Please look after my oxen, I will return in a few minutes”, and he left. The cowherd went into the village and returned a little late. The oxen had drifted away grazing. Not finding his oxen, he asked, "Ascetic, where are my oxen ?" Mahavir was in deep meditation and unaware of all this. The cowherd asked again, and once again he did not get any response. He got irritated and shouted, "You hypocrite ! Are you deaf, don't you hear anything?" Mahavir still did not respond. The cowherd lost his temper, "You pretender, it seems that both your ears are useless. Wait a minute, I will give you a proper treatment." He picked long nail like thorns from a nearby shrub of Kansa grass and pierced the ears of Mahavir deeply by hammering the thorns in. (M-25/1) Even such excruciating agony did not move Mahavir from his meditation, neither did it evoke any feeling of anger or aversion in him. Completing his meditation in normal course he went inside the village for alms. He arrived at the door of a trader named Siddharth. A friend of the trader was sitting with him. He was a doctor. Both of them gave pure food to Mahashraman with due respect. Doctor Kharak told Siddharth, "Friend, the face of this Shraman has a divine glow but there is a shade of tiredness too. Some inner pain is visible in his eyes. I feel this great sage suffers from some inner agony." Siddharth replied, “Friend, if such a great sage suffers from some kind of pain, we should immediately go and treat him." After taking alms Mahashraman returned. Taking Doctor Kharak with him, Siddharth followed. Going into the garden, where Prabhu rested, when the two examined him they found the two thorns stuck in his ears. Kharak shivered with remorse. The friends then arranged for necessary instruments and medicines. They used some medicated oil and forceps and pulled out the thorns. This caused such an unbearable agony to Mahavir that an anguished cry was forced out of him. Blood oozed out from his ears. The doctor dressed the wound with some coagulant. (M-25/2) भगवान महावीर : श्रमण-जीवन . (844) Bhagayan Mahavir: The Life as an Ascetic समुद्र विमानभवन रत्न राशि निधूम अग्नि मल्लि ghara अरिष्टनेमि पार्श्व महावीर Jan cuatro merrattonazoru US For Privale a personar use only www.jainelibrary.org

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