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Jong lik: palmyras; who was dancing with huge snakos hanging from all the parts of his body; who was as it were, agitating mountains and surface of the earth by the impact of his impetuously placed feet; who was very eager in eating the flesh of a dead body held tightly in his arm--pit; who was occupied in drinking the blood of animals cut with a very sharp curved pair of scissors; who was moving about his powerful arms, and who actually resembled a collected mass of evil deeds. On seeing the monstrous demon, Śramana Bhagavän Mahāvīra disregarding him as if he were a gnat remained in deep meditation. With the aid of Vibhanga Jñana Sūlapāņi saw that Śramapa Bhagavān Mahāvīra was extremely resolute, fearless, and immovable like Mount Méru.
With the object of again terrifying Sramaņa Bhagavān Mabāvira, the wicked yakşa Sulapāņi created a huge serpent with highly poisonous aud sharp cutting teeth resembling the sharp edge of a lance; wmo angrily threw poisonous flashes of fire; who broke collections of trees by the vehemence of the force of the hissing mass of wind coming out from his mouth, who was obstructing the directions by the mass of his up-raised extensive bood; who created ine suspicion of a forest-fire by the brilliance of the rays of ihe gem in his hood, woo was as it were a mass of viovent evil deeds, who was actually & share of the God of Death and who was as black as the mass of hair of the head of a young female. The venomous serpent speedily approached Śramana Bhagavān Mahävira and sightly entwined himself by his body around a pole. Then, he began to strike blows, as he pleased with his tail, on Bhagavāns body. The venomous snake was biting him with his sharp teeth ani by encircling himself round Sramaņa Bhagavãn Mahāvir's neck, he began to cause annoyance in his breathing.
On thus seeing Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahävira per fectly unghaken even by the trouble caused by loud roaring laughter, by monstrous demon and also by the huge serpent, Sülapāpi was greatly enraged, and he caused him extremely violent and
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