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meditation without food and drink in Guna ŝila Caitya for one month, attained Mokṣa Pada (State of Final Emancipation).
Several other Sâdhus attained Mokṣa Pada on Vipula Giri after remaining in religious meditation without food and drink. Numerous persons had Bhagavatî Dikṣa during this year. Śramana Bhagavana Mahavira lived at Rajagriha Nagara, during the rainy season of the Thirty-seventh year of his Ascetic Life.
Thirty-eight year of Ascetic Life (B.C.-531-530)
Even after the close of the rainy season, Śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahāvīra continued to live in Magadhadésa. He honoured numerous towns and villages by his Holy Presence, and he preached the Religion of the Jinesvaras wherever he went. With the approach of the rainy season, Śramana Bhagavāna Mahāvira came to Rājagrîha Nagara, and lived at Guna sila Caitya outside the town A Samavasaraṇa was prepared by gods.
Indrabhūti
Gautama-Venerable Lord
A non-jain system professes that an action in process of being done is not the action, illustrating this formula in various ways-One who is moving, has not moved what is being uttered is not uttered, what is being experienced is not experenced, what is being lost is not lost, what is being cut is not cut, what is being smashed is not smashed, what is being burent is not consumed, what is dying is not dead, and what is being worn out is not worn out.
Besides, another system holds that two particles of matter never unite, for when the number is only two, they have no viscosity. Three particles however have the capacity of uniting as when the number of particles is above two, they develop Viscosity. When three particles (Indivisible individually) in unity are separated, they evill be severed in two or three parts in case there are two parts, each part will be composed of one
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