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Srapiana Bhagavan Mabāvira then went to Kumara Sanai. veśa and he stood in Kayotsarga with his arms hanging 'low, in Campaka-ramapiya pleasure-garden there. In a house belonging to a potter named Kuvanaya with immeuse wealth and property but much addicted to wine-drinking, there lived an acārya nained Municandra whose disciples were clever in a knowledge of their own scriptures, as well as, of scriptures of other religious faiths, were capable of rescuing persons falling in the abyss of Sam āra, were the treasure of thirty-six virtuons qualities, whose disciples were always eager in explaining the excellent duties of a Yati exactly in the manner stated in the Šāstras, and whose numerous disciples coming from different countries were drinking the nectar of scriptural knowledge at the blessed feet of their ācārya.
Becoming feeble with extreme old age, Municandra Acãrya thought:
I diffused the knowledge of the scriptures taught by the Sarvajnas every where and I enlightened numerous individuals blinred by false belief, I made my pupils conversant with the sūtaras and their meanings according to my own abilities and I took care of the young and old Sãdhūs and of the entire congregation for a very long time. Now I should exert my body more for better purposes according to my own physical powers because an effort is always necessary." With this idea in his mind, Municandra Acārya appointed an equally qualified disciple nanied Vardhana on his post, and while entrusting him with the management of the congregation, he said "O child! you should always take utmost care of the congregation in the way I have carefully done, and you give instruction in the scriptures to all your disciples without minding for fatigue on your part. By doing this, you will be free from an honorous debt and from evil Karmas. O good man ! There is nothing else more auspicious in the three worlds. You do not lose this opporlunity in vain, by easy-going methods. Besides, O Sãdhūs! All of you should act according to his directions. However, even if he were to
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