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SĀRĀVALI PRAKĪRNAKA : 17 Gaining omniscience atop Pundarīkagiri, thirty-five million (Yadava) princes, including Pradyumna 24 and Samba 25, attained nirvana here.
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Five Pandavas and fifty million subjects of the Dravida kings also gained enlightenment and liberation atop the Šatruñjaya hill.
54.
Even today the devotees, who cannot bear the rigours of righteous monastic conduct, are also seen gaining the pleasures of ascending the heavens by relinquishing their bodies atop the Pundarīka hill.
55.
Twenty-three prophets, accompanied by kings and emperors and their entourages, came and preached at the Pundarīka hill. Thus, glorifying it.
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People of all castes – Brahmins (the learned), Ksatriyas (the warriors and rulers), Vaisyas (farmers, craftsmen and traders) and the Śūdras (the menials) – who live at the Satruñjaya hill gain the fruit of pilgrimage even if they do not have any specific knowledge about pilgrimage.
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The result that can be gained by severe penance and observance of strict celibacy at the other places of pilgrimage, can be gained at the Śatruñjaya hill by undertaking minimal practices.
24 Son of Krsna Vasudeva and his queen Rukmini. 25 Son of Krsna Vasudeva and his queen Jambavati who had accepted
monastic ordination at the hands of Lord Neminātha.
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