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ances.-0 Jinédra! You are the true Vira (powerful man). Vic!o'y to you. You are a guardiaz in every way, für iniserable creatures wandering in the ocean of this Sansära, Only by remembering you, the mass of sinful acts, is immedliately destroyed like darkness by the light of Sun. Blessed is the surface of the ground marked with the impressions of your lotus-like feet, O Lord of the World! Fortunate are the lions, deer, and all the other animals who are able to have a look at your golden coloured body when you are standing in contemplation in a mountain-cavel ( Lord of gods! People wander in this miserable formidable forest of worldiy existence only so long as they do not do service at your lotuslike feet. O Lord of the Three Worlda! celestial musicians along with their wives on Hémavanta and other mountain ranges, in Ksîrodadhi, on Vaitādbya and in the infernal regions, have been singing hymos of your praise. By hearing the wonderful tales of your forbearance, people leave aside all other talk. Or, will fire-fly ever appear beautiful in the sky, after Sun-rise?" Having thus enlogised him, the Indra of the Vidyut-Kumāra déva-loka told śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira that his atafa Kévalotpatti, -the acquisition of Kerala jnana-was quite near and having bowed down at Bhagavān he went away to his celestial abode.
Šramaņa Bhagavão Mahāvira then went to sarathanat TOTTI Švétāmbikā Naga:î. There Harissahendra-the Indra of the Northern part of the Vidyut Kumāra déva-loka came and respectfully bowed down at the feet of Bhagavān. While making Inquiries about sramanı Bbagavăn Mahāvira's health, the Indra told him:--"O Bhagaván: You have endured many hardships. Now you have to suffer very little. You will acquire 8233 Kévala lñäoa,-Periect Knowledge -in in /ery short time." Having said so, the Indra went to his own celestial abode.
śramaņa Bhagavān Malāvira then went to arraraft wordt Srāvasti Nagari and remained in Kārotsarga with his arms hanging by this side, in the out-êkirts of the town On that day towns-people putting on nice clothes and with flower-garlands and bowls of various kinds of sandal-paste, deliberately avoided
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