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SĀRĀVALĪ PRAKĪRNAKA : 31 Observing a month long fast in the lunar month of Vaišākha if one gets a Jina temple constructed on the Pundarīka hill, he becomes an emperor having sixty-four thousand queens.
100.
The benefit that a person gains by constructing a Jina temple at the expense of a hundred thousand coins elsewhere, can be gained by spending only a thousand coins, for the purpose, at the Satruñjaya hill.
101.
The wealth that a person becomes entitled to by offering a charity of a hundred, thousand or a hundred thousand coins can be gained by giving a Kākini (a coin of trivial value) in charity at the Satruñjaya hill.
102.
By giving noble charity in this life one becomes : noble man in the next, an ordinary man by giving an ordinary charity and one becomes an inconsequential person in the next birth by giving a trivial charity in this one.
THE BENFITS OF KNOWLEDGE AND COMPASSION
103.
By giving charity a householder gains a heavenly rebirth. By practising various austerities, as prescribed in the scriptures, he gains nirvana through attaining spiritual purity.
104.
One who grants the gift of life to the living certainly gains eternal pleasure of nirvana. Even after knowing this, why do you take pride in the means of physical pleasures, which are capable of giving only momentary pleasure?
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