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Śramana Bhagavān Mahāvira,-the separator of the bondage of affection, the grinder of innumerable miseries, the vanquisher of the Mandarăcala (Mount Mandāra) by the excellent steadiness of his tranquil mind; the sufferer of numerous hardships; with a gentle gait like that of a lordly elephant, unattended by any servant like a deer, ready in the protection of any living being like a father, and adorable by throngs of celestial beings, then went to various Madambas (small towns with villages within a distance of about four to six miles), Karbatas (ill-managed disorderly villages), Khéțas villages with mud walls) and a number of villages inhabited by numerous people.
The summer season now set in, and in course of time with the advent of the rainy season, gentle rains with loud roaring began to pour; travellers returned to their respective homes; and royal swans went to Mānasa-Sarovara (Mänasa Lake)
Śramana Bhagavān Mahāvīra now came back to Morāka Sannivesa. The Kulapati very willingly gave him a well-prepared hermitage to live in. Bhagavān remained in Kāyotsarga with his arms hanging low. In this way, he remained a few days here.
With the commencement of the rainy season as the sodder for cattle collected for a long time had become exhausted, and as new grass had not yet grown up, cows being distressed with hunger without getting anything to eat, began to eat away the grass with which the dwellengs of the hermits were covered, and the hermits began to drive them out by beating them severely with heavy sticks, and to protect their dwellings by careful watching constantly near the dcors,
The cows driven away by them after roaming here and .there, began to eat away the grass of the Aśrama in which Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra was living, as there was no one to protect it. The hermits sitting in their dwellinga, on seeing the Āśrama of Śramaņa Bhagvāu Mahāvīra being eaten away by the cows, very angrily began to complain "O! We are carefully
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