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named ibkasian!: of arnis, were very often making tight embraces, Some, under the fraud of the tightening their waist-garment, were throwing away their outer-garment and exposing the disc like round-d parts of their buttocks. Some wide-eyed females under the guise of showing a fired condition of their bodies, were showing their well-d. veloped beaving breasts for a long time. Some of the divise damsels, repeatedlly said:--. O good man! If yüu are really merciful, why do you not protect us from the ravages of Kāma déva (God of Love) attacking us with arrows! If you are indifferent towards your own body, why do you not hand it over to us! Being food of affection, if you are indifferent to us out of curiosity only, it should be only for a moment but it is not proper 10 do it till the end of one's life. O Lord ! Leave asice your hard-heartedness, and fulfil our desires. Do not disregard our entreaties and do not disappoint us." Sramapa Bhagavān Mahăvîra's concentration of mind was not, in the least, distracted, by singing: musical performances, dancing, gesticulations, and by the alluring speech of these divine females.
In ihis way, the wicked Samgamaka-deva created twenty severe dieturbances mentioned above during one night to Śramaņa Bhagavän Mahāvira who was in Kāgot arga ( religious meditation with perfect renunciation of body).
On seeing Śramaņa Bhagavāı perfectly undisturbed, at Sun--rise, ibe disappointed Samgamaka déva thought:-"This great sage is not at all disturbed even by agreeable troubles. Should I leave him alone and go away disppointed, to my svarga (heaven)! But it is not advisable for me to do triat. There is no cause for disparagement. Remaining here for a longer time, I will be able to distract the mind of this saint by harassing nim in some other ways. By long continued harassments, his mind will be changed in due course of time of what significance is a human creature before the unlimited powers of a celestial being that I should, thus, go away disappointed with an ugly, face?
With the Rising Sun, the pating became flooded with the Sun's rays, and the small moving animaicules generally frequen
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