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your house you should change the door of your house, lest on knowing the nature of the meal taken he may burn your house." Sri Bhadră gave birth to a dead body. She prepared the ricepudding exactly in the way advised by the astrologer and she sat at the door of her house waiting for a mendicant. At that time, Gośāla wandering from house to house, came there. She very respectfully requested Gośāla for dinner and he entered her house. On a beat offered to him he sat down and in a vessel placed before him Sri Bhadră served him the prepared ricepudding. Having decided with his own puor intellect that there can be no possibility of any flesh in the rice-pudding, Gosāla took the meal to his entire satisfaction.
Having taken his meal, Gośāla went to śramaņa Bhagavan Mahāvīra and smilingly told him:-'0 Bhagavān! you fore-told events for a long time but today your fore-felling has turned out to be false. Siddhārtha said "O good man! do not be hasty. Our words never turn out to be false. If you are not confident, vomit out whatever you have eaten and you will be evidently convinced. Gośāla vomitted by irritating with fingers pushed into his throat and he saw particles of flesh, bair etc in the changed rice-pudding. On seeing this, Gośāla became very angry and he went in search of her house. But she had changed the door of her house, and so, when he repeatedly went there in search of her house and when he could not find it out, he said "If there be any evident influence in the austerities or supernatural powers of my religious preceptor, let this locality be burnt to ashes:' The neighbouring vāņa-vyantara gods under che conviction that the words of a Jinéśvara cannot be false, burnt o locality.
Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira lived there for a few days more, and then he went to a village named Halid-duga Outside skat village Śramana Bhagavān Mahāvira stood in Kāyotsarga under a big tree named Haridra-beautiful in spreading branches and numerous stalks capable of warding off the light of the Sun by innumerable leaves and with a big trunk. At that time, a
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