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ing beings) and therefore, acceptable to sâdhus, and even though, the owners of the sessamum seeds were willingly ready to give them as alms, Sramaņa Bhagavara Mahāvîra did not give permission to accept them as alms-material Although Sramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira knew that the sessamum seeds were acita, how can ig norant sādhus know them to be acita ? If, in case, knowing the sessamum seeds to be acita, the sâdhus are allowed to accept them, śramana Bhagavān Mahăvira did not permit them simply because lest sådhus themselves may not be tempted to cite this accident as a guiding example, and to accept sa-cita sessamum seeds as a routine practice.
During this jownery, all the sădhus were troubled with thirst. On the way, there was a large rond full of a-cita water. Sramaņa Bhagavana Māhâvīra knew that the water in the pond was a-cita ( free from living organisms ) and that it was acceptable to the sādhus. But water in all the ponds is not a-cita, Now, if the sådhus be permitted to take even a-cita water from a particular pond, they may be inclined, some day or another, to take sa-cita water from other ponds as a routina practice in future, and it was with this idea, that śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāyira did not permit the sådhus to take the water from that pond.
Prom Vitabhaya Pattana Šramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira went to Vānijya-grāma in Vidéha-désa and lived there during the four months of the rainy season.
Eighteenth Year of Ascetic Life. (B. C. 551-550 )
1. Vrata-grahaņa of Cullanipitā and Surā-déva 2. Dikşā of Pudg-ala Parivrājaka 3. Vrata-grahaņa of Cullastaka. 4. Dîksā of mankāti Kimkrama, Arjuna, Kāsyapa and others. 5 Métârya Muni
Explaining the tenets of the Jaina Religion in different villages and towns. Áramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira reached Banaras
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