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thirteenth day of the warring moon, half of Māgha the constellation Abhichi being in conjunction with the moon, he sat in a Paryaika posture maintaining just the last body activity, he with draw himself gradually from the outer world and speech. Thus Lord attained there pure meditation called Sūkşmakriya with five body activities given up. Then the Lord attained there pure meditation named Utsannakriya long enough for the utterance of five short letters.
All pain abandoned, possessing infinite knowledge and perception, his karma destroyed, his object accomplished, endowed with infinite power and bliss, having an upward course like the seed of the castor bean because of absence of earthly bondage Lord went 10 Moksa by a straight path".
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1. Jain, Surendra Kumar, Glimpses of Jainism, Motilal
Banarasidass, Delhi, 1997, p. 5 2. Ibid. P. 5 3. Ibid. P. 5 4. Ibid. p.p. 7-8 (i) Mukerjee, Dr. Radha Kumud, Hindu Sabhyatā, IIIrd
Edition, p.39 (ii) Dinkar, Ramdhari singh, Sanskriti Ke Cāra Adyāya, p.39 5. Nair, V.G., Research in Religion: Rule And Reform Union
Universal Walfare, Addeswara Bhavanam. Poil-Red-Hills, Tamilnadu. Referred in the book Dr. Bothra, Lata, Ādinātha Rşabhadeva Aura Āștāpada ( in Hindi), Published by Jain
Bhavan, Kalakar Street, Kolkata-7, 2005, p. 25 6. Banerjee, Satya Ranjan, Introducing Jainism, Published by
Jain Bhavan, Kalakar Street, 2002, p. 1, Kolara-7 7. Rgveda 4, 58,3 8. Jainism in different states of India, p. 5
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