Book Title: Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 1
Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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________________ 143 Cakravartin, they went home, and did everything that was necessary for the occasion. The Cakravartin Priyamitra also, installed his successor and made him supreme lord of all the elephants, horses, army, and the wealth of the State. After a bath, Priya Mitra Cakravartin put on excellent ornaments, and surrounded by all the feudatory chiefs who were willing to adopt asectic life, and giving constant gifts of gold, and other articles on the way with the playing of various musical instruments, with dancing of young females and with laudatory verses sung by bards, he eventually reached the pleasure garden. Getting down from the palanquin he paid his homage to the Acarya Mahārāja by going round him three times from right to left. Priyamitra Cakravartin, then, removed all his precious ornaments, and valuable garments from his body, and Guru Maharaja initiated him into his Order of Monks. He accepted the Dikṣa with a pure heart. While studying the Siddhāntas preached by the Tirthankaras, giving careful attention in the service of the Guru Mahārāja, abandoning carelessness, violence, and deceitful intrigues, wasting his body by penance of various kinds, accumulating & mass of pure qualities, conquering the God of Love and other internal enemies, protecting all other animals like his own life, not leaving off even for a moment the meditation of the mearings of the Sutras, holding a well-balanced mental disposition in relation to happiness or misery a precious gem or a piece of stone, an enemy or an affectionate friend, and giving up all association like a piece of straw clinging to one's garment, the worshipful ascetic Priyamitra Muni, thus, led a strictly religious life for one crore years. Soon af r death, Priyamitra Muni was affluent god in Šukra deva-loka. Jain Education International For Private Personal Use Only born as a very www.jainelibrary.org

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