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When śramana Bhagavān Mahăvîra was twenty-eight years old, his parents following the religlous doctrine of the Tirtlankara Bhagavān Śri Pārsva Näih, took their seat on a bedding of Kusa grass, wasted their bodies by abstaining from every kind of food and drink-material, and on death were born as celestial beings in Acyuta déva-loka and they will certainly attain At Moksa Final Emancipation in Apara Mahăvidéha during their future third Bhava Yuvarāja Nandivardhana and other members of the royal family filled with extreme sorrow, then cremated the dead body of his parents and having performed the ceremonies suitable for the occasion, all of them went away to their respective places. The Sun as if unable to see the sorrowful event reached the Sun-set Mountain, the evening twilight seemed as if weeping by the yelling of birds, the beds of lotus s seemed as if to be shedding tears on account of the bees going away from them, and the Moon rose as if with the object of chastising young females afflicted with bereavement of their beloved ones, and as if for the purpose of pacisying the minds of the royal family burning with the pangs of separation caused by the death of the parents of Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira.
At day-break with the rise of the Sun, on seeing Yuvarāja Nandivardhana suffering from the outburst of most unbearble sorrow, and surrounded by females of the harem, and all the kitsmen agonized with the pain of separation, Śramaņa Bhagavan Malāvira said: -
पिअमाइभाइभरणी-मजापुत्तत्तणेण सम्वेऽपि ।
जीवा जाया बहुसो, जीवस्स उ एगमेगस्स ॥ १॥ 1. Pia-māi-bhāi-bhaiņi-bhajjā-puttattanéņa sayvé'pi; Jivā jāyā bahuso jî vassa u égamégassa.
[पितृमातृभ्रातृभगिनीभार्यापुत्रत्वेन सर्वेऽपि ।
जीवा जाता बहुशः जीवस्य तु एकैकस्य ॥१॥ 1. Pltr-wātr-bhrātr-bhagini-bhāryā - putratvéna sarvé'pi;
Jivă jātā bahuśaḥ jîvasya tu ékaikasya.
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