Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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jewels, incantations, medicinal substances, mysticism, faculty of knowing, wealth, age-limit, and a decrease in the juices of fruits, flowers, and other savoury articles, in comeliness and height of bodies and in benefactory wishes.
During the end of the fifth ara, in the Bharata Kṣètra there will become a religious preceptor named Duh-prasaha, a sādhvt named Falgusri, a śrāvaka named Nāgila and a śrāvikā named Satyśrt with a king named Vimala-vāhana and his minister named Sanmukha. The height of people will be two hands, and their age-limit will be twenty years. The austerities practised by religiously-minded people will be at the most, a fasting of two days.
A sadhu versed in Daśavai-kālika Sūtra only, will be looked upon as one fully conversant with all the agamas and the fourteen Purvas. Such sadhus will preach the congregation.
Duhprasaha-ācārya will lead a house-holder's life for twelve years, and, having led ascetic life for eight years, and having died at the end of a fasting of three days, he will be born as a dèva (celestial being) in Saudharma dèva-loka. On that day, there will be a cessation of ascetic life during the first portion of the day, of royal power during the middle of the day, and a cessation of agni (fire) during the latter part of the day.
6. After the lapse of the Duhsama ara of twenty-one thousand years' duration, there will be the sixth ara named Duhṣama -duḥṣamā of twenty-one thousand years. With the utter destruction of Equability of Reason, there will be a constant Cry of Woe during this period. Even among human beings there will not remain a sense of judicious morality even between a mother and her son, in the same way as it is absent among brutes. Piercing and un-pleasant winds full of dust particles will be blowing day and night, and all the directions will be smoky and terrible. The Moon will be intense by cold and the Sun will become unusually hot and extremely unbearable. Thus people suffering from the effects of intense cold and extreme heat will
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