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rules of sāmācāsim prescribed usage ). You have adopted an altogether a different line of action, it is not, therefore advisable for me to have any connection with you.' On liearing this. Ārya Suhasti Sūri, trembling like a child, with fear, said "O Swāmi" It is a great fault of mine Please pardon me once more.' Ācārya Arya Mahāgiri then said :-" It is not your fault. The last ( 24th > Tirthanhara Śrmaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra had said that after the time of Sthūlabhadra Muni, there will be a slackness in observance of the rules of conduct of ascetics of future generation and we ourselves being the successors of Śruta Kévali Sthūla-bhadra Swāmī, these words of Sramaga Bhagavān Mahāvīra come out to be perfectly true." Ācārya Mahārāja Sri Ārya Mahāgiri then went elsewhere.
Arya Suliastı Sūri miving from one place to another went to Ujjayani Nagari. ( Ujjain in Málvā). He remained out--side the town and he sent two of his sādhūs into the town with a request for a dwelling-place. The sādhûs went to Bhadrā Śéthāņi and asked for a dwelling-place. Bhadrā Śéthāņi very willingly placed her vāhana-kuti ( a place for keeping chariots) at their disposal, and Ācārya Mahārāja Ārya Su-hasti Sūri came and lived there along with his samudāya of sādhūs.
One day during fore-night, when Ācārya Mahārāja Ārya Suhasti Sūri was repeating an excellent adhyayana named Nalinigulma, the son of Bhadrā Śéthāņi named Avanti-sukumāla overheard the adhyayana while he was amusing himself on the seventh storey of her mansion. As he went on carefully istening to it, he became engrossed in deep thinking. He came down from his palatial buildiog and having respect-fully appro ached the Guru Mahārāja, he said "I have sorrc-what expert. enced the place of which you are repeating the description' On deep and serious thinking, Avanti-sukumäla had faEATOT Jāti smarana, [a remembrance of an event of his previous life) He said.--During my previons life I was a déva (god) in Nalinigulma Vimāna. Descending from there, I am born here I am desirous of again going there You will be pleased to
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