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Three guptis- of the mind, of the speech and of the body, Five samities --of the movement, of the spoken word, of the food, of the appurtenance and -of the calls of nature Five major observances -non-violence, truth, nonstealing, continence and non-acquisition; these were the thirteen virtues that Lord Mahavira propounded, hitherto unpropounded by the preceding tirthankaras : We prostrate before such glorious Mahavira ! In whose milky-ocean-like bodily aura the world has its ablution, whose enlightened knowledge inspires the world, in whose glorious world is reflected, as in a mirror, the truth Such gods-worshipped Mahavira may grant us the path leading to the three lights mentioned herein I prostrate before Mahavira who was equally wellinclined towards Indra making obeisance to him and Chandakaushik the serpent, stinging him 3 During the perverse times of kall the pollen of your lotus feet is like a lamp to the pathless, nocturnal wanderer, an island to the breathless, oceanic drifter,
a shadowy tree to a scorched being in a desert in June * and fire to a shivering being My Lord! So long as I had not seen your Holiness, I drifted hither and thither for aeons, I thank this perverse kalikala when I was blessed with your vision Two contradictions are witnessed in your holy being superb nirgranthata and superb universal sway. .
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