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He made me wander about for the whole night although he knew the where-abouts of my bullocks' So saying, he angrily raised up his plough and hurriedly ran towards śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira with the object of striking a blow to hips with it.
Now, Śakrendra, desirous of knowledge of the whereabouts of the itinerancy of Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, saw the cowherd running towards him with the cbject of striking him a blow. He at once steadied the cowherd there and hurriedly went to the spot where śramana Bhagavān Mahāvīra was in Kāyotsarga. He rebuked the cowherd thus “O Illbehaved ! O wickeri man ! O brute! The lower animals are only fortunate that you do not eat away their grase. Do you not know Vardhamāna Swămi, the son of King Siddhārtha, who has eatered the Holy Orders, after renouncing, elephants, horses, warriors, kingdom etc, who is always eager for religious duties, and who has regarded a gem as a piece of straw?" and punished the cowhero
Sakréndra then adored Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra by walking around him three times from right to left and having folded the two palms of his lands in the form of a cavity and having reverently raised the folded cavity in front of his fore. head, he requested the Lord thus:-"O Lord! Even while performing relig!ous ceremonies during your ascetic life, you will have terrible troubles and hardships for twelve years, which will be deadly to ordinary individuals and which will aise horripilation even in the minds of very valient persons. To me, therefore, the favour of giving me your permission to remain with you during that period for rendering service to you."
Śramaya Bhagavān Mahāvira then, becoming free from Kāyotsarga replied “O Surendra! there is ro doubt that your hearty devotion prompts you for such a request, but an event like this had never happened during the past, never happens in the present time, and will never happen in future, that Tirthankaras had ever shredded their previous vil Karmas, do ever shred them, and will ever shred them with the help of a Dévén
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