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of forebearance. There is no other remedy for destroying sing of former lives; you are fortunate and your life has achieved its goal that you have acquired the principles of Jalna Dharma which are capable of relieving your miseries." With these nectar. like excellent words, Jinadas seth established both the bulls in the right auspicious path. Enduring their bodily agonies with increasingly pious intentions and hearing the panca-namaskaras (obeisance to the five exalted dignitaries) with perfect calmness, both the balls died, and they were born as Nāgakumāra dévas They were the two gods Kambala and Sambala who removed the trouble created to śramaņa Bhagavan Mahāvira by god Sudūợba.
Coming down from the skift, Sramapa Bhagavān Mahāvīra did atonement for having crossed the river by repeating the wiyāvahiyam sutra (a sūtra ennumerating the transgressions in walking) on the bank of the river, and he began to walk on some white fine sand with gentle steps in the direction of Thūpāga Sannivesa. On seeing the image of rows of feet of Śramana Bhagavān Mahävira marked with signs of cakra (wheel) Kamala (lotus) vajra (thunder-bolt) ankusa (goad) Kalasa ( an urn-like pot with a nozzle), prāsāda (a palace) and other excellent auspicious marks imprinted on the fine sand on the bank of the river, a clever fortune-teller named Puspa thought:Ah! I see here a row of marks of feet marked with auspicious signs-never seen before during my whole life and extremely wonderful-of a great cakravartin-8 sovereign of a circle of earth consisting of six continents. Perhaps, a cakravartin may not have acquired his sovereignty through some unseen cause or he may be desirous of travelling over various countries or a cakravartin engrossed in some hard difficulties, may be wandering alone. Let me see that great man. My eagerly wished-for object will be accomplished even by doing service to him in this state". As soon as be walked fast for some distance with this idea in his mind, he saw śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira standing in meditation under an Aśoka tree ornamented by numberleus sprouts, outside Thūņāga Sannivesa, and on seeing
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