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Cakravartin. My grand-father is the first Tirthankara 01 my family is excellent. But,
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कुर्वन् मदं पुनस्तानि हीनानि लभते जनः ॥१॥ 1. Jắti-labha-kusaišvarga-båla-rūpa-tapah-śrůtaih,
Kurvan madam puñastāni hînāni labhatë janaḥ. 1.
A man becoming conceited regarding his 1. sifa Jāti, Birth Origin, 2. 37 Labha, Acquirements, 3. Kula, Family, 4. dear Aiśvarya, Supreme dominion, 5. Bala, Strength, 6. 4 Rūpa, Handsome appearance, 7. 7: Tapah Penance, and 8. ghat Sruti Sacred Knowledge known through hearsay,-has a deficienoy of these again and again.
In this way, owing to the boastful bragging of the excellence of his family, Marici Parivrājaka acquired for himself the il-fate of being born in a low family, enduring various hard. ships during numerous future lives. While experiencing such hardships calmly, the molecules of artis Nica Götra, Birth in a low family, were getting destroyed; the remaining molecules may even be experienced during the life in which he was to be a Tirthankara.
Nirvāṇa of Rişabha-deva. Then, Bhagavān Sri Risabha-deva Swāmi after instructing numerous devout individuals in the principles of the True Religion, at various villages, towns, fortified cities, sea-port towns, and knowing his end near, went to Mount Ny Aștāpada on the completion of his existence as a Kövalin for something less in one hundred thousand (100000) pūrva years. There, on the thirteenth day of the dark-half of the month of ATET Māgha, (January-February ) with the Moon in conjunction with the lunar-mansion affar Abhijit, during the fore-part of the day, with eighty-nine fortnights of the third era, (namely GATTA
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