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are for instance-she is my motber, he is my father, he is my brother, they are my family-members or my kinsmer- these living, lifeless and mixed substances are miueThose relating to ksétra perlain, to a village, a town, a forest, a field, a corn-thrashing locality, a house, or any other place for which he had no rest. riction- The hindrances relating to kala pertain to samaja (woment), avalikă (innumerable sanayas ) svašośvāsa ( period of one respiration ), muhurta ( 77 lavas) or a day or night for which he had no predelicion As regards bbāva (intention ). Sramana Bhagavān Manăvira had no inclination for anger, pride, deceit, avarice, love, barted, quarrel, back biting, slander, censure of others, discomfort sexual enjoyment, deceitful false-hood or the thorn of wrong belief, Besides, lising for one night in a village and for five nights in a town during the eight months, except the rainy sea on of the year, Sramaņa Bhagavăn Mahāvira is devoid of laughter, sorrow, tear, tree from pride, fargránt as if perfumed by sandal; regarding a piece of straw, a gem, a piece of stone or a bar of gold impartially, living homogeneously in happiness or la misery, perfectly free from all bondage of this world or of tbe next, devoid of any desire for living or for death, and he is always careful indestroying the mads of karmas of previous lives. No one is able to disturb him in religious meditions as the glorious saint is powerful enough to outweigh by his con fortitude the combined courage of the three world.
The Indras of the gods, the gods, yaksas (attendants of kubéra) räksāsas (demons ) vidyadharas (aerial genu) bhutas ( ghosts ) mahoragas (serpent gode ) cannot, in the least, confuse the mud of the Venerable Salat although they possess unequalled valour Perhaps Mount Méru may shake, the earth may gravitate into the nether world, soine powerful individual may crush the vimängs of the Moon or of the Sun, and even the great oceans berrible with numerous fishes and alligators, may become dried up; bowever, the combined strength of the three worlds is not able to sbake the mental balance of Śramana Bhagavān Mabāvira.”
Then, biting his lower lip with intense anger, and maklag ble eyebrows terrifying on hearing those words ol Purandara,
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