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after practising severe foolish penances becoming covered by a wioked dusky veil of wrong preaching like young boys playing with a cover of dust on them, he died on the completion of an age-limit of forty-four hundred thousand pūrva years.
Thirteenth Previous Bhava. During the thirteenth previous Bhava of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvím, the soul of Marici was born as a gol in Māhendra ddva-loka. Surrounded by numerous attending gods in the Vimiana shining brilliantly by the rays of gems and precious stones, he began to amuse himself with various divine sports. On the completion of his age-limit, he left the dova-loka.
Fourteenth Previous Bhava. After a number of repeated minor births as a bad god, & human being, a lower animal, or as a hellish being, the soul of Martoi, during, the fourteenth previous Bhava of Sramaņa Bhagavān Malāvira, was born as a son to #ifarra Kāntimati, wife of a Brāhmaṇa named the Kapila of I CT Rājagriba Nagara.
He was named the Thavara and in due course of time, inoreasing in vital power, strength, and body, he reached youth. Although desirous of accomplishing religious observances on seeing people afflicted with the misery of constant birth, old age, death, and numerous diseases, he never went to Jaina ascetics practising difficult religious vows nor to wandering mendicants of any other creed out of enchantment of exoessive illusion,
One day, he met with a fi Tridaņdi asoetic whose nose was flat and whose teeth and upper lip were cleft. On seeing him, he was at once greatly pleased, as if by the accidental meeting of an unobtainable favourite individual like the night lotus by the sight of the Moon or the day-lotus by the sight of the Sun, with his lotus-like eyes shining brilliantly like the Asoka Tree blooming by the striking with the feet of an young fomalo dressed with a scarlet-red cloth.
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