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On hearing this argument of śramaņa Bhagavâna Mah&vira the misguided Saddāla-putra became enlightened and he requested Sramana Bhagavana Mahāvira to explain to him the Main Principles of the Jaina Religion. Accepting the request of Saddalaputra, the Omuisicient Šramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvîra, explained him the Principles of Jaina Religion with some details. Thereupon, Saddala-putra and his wife, Agnimitra, accepted the super iority of the Principles of Jaina Religion, and they took the Five Anu Vratas (Minor Vows) and seven Siksā-vratas (rituals) of the Twelve Vows for a Housewholder and limited the possession, of their wealth and property to a great extent.
After a lapse of fourteen years l-e during the middle of the fifteenth year, when Saddála-putra was sitting in religious meditation at the Pausadha-śālā (a place for religious meditation) a god became visible there and he tried to make him swerve from his meditation. With that object in his mind, the god created an appearance of cutting the flesh of the body of the son of Saddala-putra and throwing it into a boiling sauce-pan. But Saddāla-putra was not at all moved. But when the god m de an appearance of cutting the flesh of Agni-mitra-Saddála-putras wife-and throwing it into a bolilng sauce-pan, Saddála-putra all of a sudden got up from his meditation and tried to catch him. Having come to realize that all appearance was created by a god, Saddála-putra did penance for his undesired act, and he became more steady in his vows. Having died after expiating for his previous evil deeds on his death--bed Saddāla-putra was born as a god in Déva-loka.
From Polāsāpura, śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvira went to Vānugya-grāma and lived there during the rainy season.
Twenty-second Year of Ascetic Life. (B C. 547--46) 1, Vrata-grahaņa of Mahāşataka Śrāvaka at Rajagriha.
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