Book Title: Samraiccha Kaha
Author(s): Madhusudan Modi
Publisher: Gurjar Granth Ratna Karyalay

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________________ 51. 11. ] engrossed in the acceptance of special objects. They obtain their livelihood by food taken from people. Their bodies are without nursing. They consider equal a straw, a gem, a pearl, a clod and gold. What of more ?' They bear 18 thousand subsidiaries of good conduct. They hold the happiness arising from the suppression of passions, praised by learned men with similes etc.. Having wandered over the whole earth consisting of various habitations namely, the clusters of villages cities, towns, small villages ( Madamba ), protected towns (Donimuha) etc., they awaken the collection of lotuses in the form of high-souled beings, stuck up in muddy paths of false belief etc. by the sun-rise of the sermons of the true religion. Their bodies are refined with practice of great austerities. They give up their bodies by the concentrated meditation in which they keep themselves motionless like a tree and meet death in the death-season according to the way preached by Jinas. Then I also in that manner leave up my life. [51] I have obtained revered Vijayasenācārya; who is the charioteer of religion; who is the boat in the sea. of this terrible worldly existence; who is the incomparable desire-yielding jewel of the three worlds; who is the single desire-yielding tree in the yielding of the eternal bliss; and who is the sun of all Lokas and Alokas; who is difficult to be found in even thousands and hundreds of births. Hence I shall have a grand. withdrawal; which is the wild fire of the forest of actions and which is adopted by wise persons." Having so thought, he called his ministers, Subuddhi and others. He conveyed to them his own opinion. Then, they who had attained the essence of the speech of Jinas from:

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