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towards Śromana Bhagavān - Mahavira with a big rope with the object of beating him, but he was prevented by Surendra (Indra of gods ).
Then, moving about from village to village, śramana Bhagavān Mahāvira went to Kausāınbi Nagari a town decorated with rows of while elegant bouses and beautified by triangular passages, squares, courtc-yards, market-places, public buildings etc. In that town, there was a king named Satānika who was fear. lessly enjoying the prodigious royal wealth of his enemies held by the thick cord of his virtuous quality as a protector of the earth King Satānika had a queen named Mrigāva'î -daughter of King Celaka She knew the whole truth of the Jaina Religion and she was always ready in worshipping the lotus-like feet of Jinéśvaras. The king had it minister um Su-gupta who knew the interval scret movements of all the kings, and who governed the kingdom with judicious intellect. The minister had a wife named Nanda Naudā's love for the established Siddhanta (fundamental principles ) of the Jaina religion was thoroughly intermixed with the seven elementary constituenta (alimentary juice, bloud, flesh, fat, bone, marrow, and seinen) of her body, and she being a true follower of the house-holder's dbarma propagated by the Jinésvaias, she always had & feeling of friendliness with queen Mrigāvatî. Besides, there was a religious preceptor nained Tattva -vădi, who was clever in oiffusing the secrets of the various systeins of philosophy, and honoured by the king. In that town also, there was a wealthy merchant named Dbauavala who was very prominent among all merchants, and also his wife Mulā. All these persons lived in the town, doing their appropriate work.
On the first day of the dark-half of the month Pauşa (December-January) Śramaņa Bhagavāı Mahāvira took the undermentioned extremely difficult vow :
जहा -- जइ कालायसनियलबद्धचलगा, अवणीयसिरोरुहा, सोयभरा767 Trefiti, T ATT 15 qr for de Tui 991,
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