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Religion preached by Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvīra. On hearing the excellent instructive words uttered by his wives even in joke, Dhanya Śéth earnestly said:-"O, You are fortunate. You are very lucky that by uttering such praiseworthy words at the appropriate time, you have clearly manifested the excellent usage of your noble families. My name Dhanya has today become actually des. erving. I have now become m-re fortunate than Sālıbhadra Séjha, because those who would have obstructed my progress, have now become helpful to me. On listening to your auspicious words, I have become diligent in adopting ascetic life. With your cooperation and with your valuable advice, am desirous of accomplishing the welfare of any Self. O Yirtuous ladies ! you, also, calmly become the receptacle of noble ideals”. Arousing. thus all his obedient wives with pleasing words, Dhanya Sètha prompted theni to accept Bhagavatı Diksā (ascetic life promulgated by the Tirthankaras). Dhanya Setha who had become ready to renounce the world and lead an ascetic life, possessed immense wealth. He was the proprietor of fifteen hundred rich and prosperous villages. He had five hundred beautiful chariots, five hundred well-bred horses, five hundred excellent palatial buildings five hundred firms in different localities, and five thousand clerks who were competent in commerical transactiors. Also, he possessed five hundred big boats, and five hundred aerial cars in the town, he had eight delightful well-furnished seven-storeyed palaces. He had eight handsome wives, and each one of them had one go-kula (a herd of ten thousand cows) for personal use-Besides these, Dhanya Śétha had riches worth five hundred and sixty million gold mothars invested in business concerns, money -lending, and cash in treasury. Each of his eight wives had gold worth one crore gold mohars each as personal property. In addition to these he possessed thousands of big granaries out of which numerous alm-houses were erected at varjous places in different towns and villages for the benefit of the disabled, needy, poor persons. Above all, Dhanya Śétha possessed an auspicious miraculous gem capable of giving all wished-for pleasurable objects Dhanya Setha thus possessed immense wealth indicative of excellent merit.
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