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35. I abandon this body at the lest breath of this worldly existence.
Having thus serlously thought about the above-named conditions of life, Muni Nandana Rial asked pardon from kis dharmācārya (religious preceptor), sådhus, and sādhvis (nuns).
Having remained without food and drink for sixty days; having led sannyäsa dharma (ascetic life) for one hundred thousand years, and having completed a total age-limit of twenty-five lacs of years at death, the illustrious muni appeared as a charming god in the Upapāda Sayyā (divine bed of birth) in the extensive vimina named Puspottara in the Prāgat déva-loka (tenth heaven) with an age-limit of twenty sågaropams during his next life.
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