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SĀRĀVALI PRAKĪRṆAKA : 9 21-22. Mother, father, son, and wife, objects of pleasure, kith and kin, friends and servants are all of transient nature. Thus, knowing the futility of the householder's status, he (Pundarika) started thinking about the righteous faith.
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Thus, listening to the words of faith, Pundarīka stayed at the feet of the noble one (Bhagvan Rsabhadeva) and renouncing all acts of violence, accepted the ordination.
The strong walk fast, the ordinary walk with a medium pace and the weak walk slowly while resting in between and find it difficult to traverse the path.
Monk Pundarika learned the complete canonical knowledge at the hands of the learned masters and then his master asked him to peregrinate with his own disciples to preach the faith.
His master told him, "Go to the high hill in the Saurastra
region and you will gain enlightenment on its summit".
The righteous monk Pundarika accepted his master's command and after gaining the knowledge of the scriptures and travelling through the half of the Bharata land and came to the Saurastra region.
Wandering through the Saurastra region monk Pundarika beholds the tree covered hill and remembering his master's words says that I have seen 'the hill' today.
This is the high hill, as indicated by my master, and here shall I gain the enlightenment and the eternal bliss of liberation.
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