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120 śramana Bhagayān Mahävira, then, removed his doubts by explaining the correct interpretation of the versts of the Vedas. He took # Dik ã,-Initiation, at the hands of śramana Bhagavān Mahävira along with his five hundred pupils.
Ganadhara Maharaja Sudharmā Swāmi was fifty years old when he renounced the world. He knew the various works of Jain Scriptures as he had several Labdhis. After a period of forty-two years of ascetic life, he acquired her Kévala Jñāna, Perfect Knowledge at the age of ninety-two.
Gagadhara Mahārāja Sudharmā Swāmi remainad a Kévali for eight years, and when he acquired A1796 Mokșa Pada, the State of Final Emancipation from all miseries, he was one hundred years old.
GANADHARA MANDIT.
Ciapadhara Maņõita Afisa of afy Vāśistha gotra was the sixth Caņadhara of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra He was born at tanta Mouryagama His mother was fasztof Vijayadéyi and his father was sada Dhanadeva. He was a Brāhmin by caste. He was well-versed in the four Védas and the six gains Upangas,-the Supplemen'ary Sciences. He had three hundred and fifty pupils who were receiving instruction in various braches of learning under him.
Ārya Mandita had a doubt in his mind about qo Bandha, Bondage and Art Moksa, freedom from the bondage of Karmas, as a result of misleading interpretations of various verses of the Vedas
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