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your part or without it? The god replied:-O Kunda Kolika ! ! have acquired all this divine prosperity without the help of any effort. Kunda Kolika again asked him:-In case, as you say, that you have got all this celestial prosperity without the help of an effort, how is it that other living beings do not acquire it! According to your belief,-a firm faith in the doctrine of Ɑośālaka Mańkhali-putra-all persons should acquire celestial happiness without an effort on their part. Even if you were to say that you have acquired your celestial prosperity through the medium of effort on your part, then, you cannot emphatically say that the doctrine preached by Gosalaka Mankhali-putra is good". The god was not able to refute his argument and so, leaving Kunda Kolik's upper garment and signet-ring at their proper place, the god went away.
After some time, when Śramana Bhagavân Mahavira, accom panied by his retinue of disciples, arrived at Kämpilya-pura Nagara, the devout Kunda Kolika Śravaka, went there for darsana. Śramana Bhagavāna Mahavira praised him highly for having adequately refuted the argument of the god. Having, thus, carefully observed the religious vows of a House-holder for fourteen (14) years, he practised the Progressive Spiritual Stages of Religious Advancement for a House-holder. On his death-bed, Kunda Kolika remained in religious meditation, without food and drink for one month and having died with perfect equanimity of mind he was born as a god in Aruņa Dhvaja Vimāna of Saudharma Déva-loka. Descending from the Saudharma Déva-loka, he will attain Siddhi Pada (State of Final Emancipation) in Maha Vidéha Kṣétra.
3. Saddǎla-putra.
From Kampilya Nagara, Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira went to Polâsapura.
At Polăsapura, there lived a rich potter named Saddāla -putra and his wife Agni-mitra. He was a firm believer in the 52
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