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19. Accurately displaying devotion and high opinion of the Scriptures, carefully reflecting on their meanings, and acquiring them in accordance with the prescribed order.
20. Elevating excellently with a pure mind, the status of the Siddhäntas by the daily preaching of religious doctrines with the help of syādvăda, to devout individuals.
21. The excellent Nandana Muni-having thus performed the religious rites of visaithānagãi (twenty exalted dignitaries) -the supreme soul-acquired the Karma named Tirthankars-pāma -gotra Karma.
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