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At this time, Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahāvīra house of a householder named Ananda for break-fast completion of his second series of one month's fasting for the rainy season. There also, he was received with sweet articles of food. At the end of the third series of one month's fasting, Śramana Bhagavan Mahavira, had excellent food at the house of Sunanda Then, at the time of break-fast of the fourth series of one month's fasting, Gośāla out of assumption of affection caused by service of many days asked Śramaņa Bhagavan Mahavira, on the purnima day of the month of Kartika. "O lord! To-day being a day of great annual festivity, what kind of food shall I obtain ? Siddhartha Vyantara entering the body of Śramana Bhagavan Mahāvīra replied, "O good man! To day you will get sour Kodrava rice-grains, and a counter-feit rupee as a gift; on hearing this, Gośāla very perseveringly began to wander about in numerous houses-high and low-early from Sun-rise and wher ever he went, he invariably got sour kodrava rice. When, however, during the last prahara of the day, Gośāla was greatly distressed with hunger and thirst, and when he was unable to get anything else, an artizan took him to his house and fed him with sour kodrava rice. He also gave Gośāla one rupee as a gift after meals. On showing the rupee in the market it turned out to be a false coin. Gośāla, then, accepted the doctrine Whatever is going to happen, cannot turn out to be otherwise ".
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Śramana Bhagavan Mahāvīra during the second rainy sea son of his ascetic life, did four series of fasting of one month's duration, each at Nālandā.
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On the Purnima day of Kārtika, Śramaṇa Bhagavan Mahāvīra left Nālandā and he went to Kollaga Sannivesa. A Brāhmaṇa named Bahula was feeding Brāhmaṇas with great devotion on that day. Śramana Bhagavan Mahāvīra went to his house for food on the breakfast of his fourth series of fasting of one month's duration each. On seeing the Bhagavan there,
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