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then observed the eleven faurs Pratimas, Stages of Spiritual Development for a Śravaka. On account of severe austerities his body became greatly emaciated.
One day, under the influence of meritorious meditation Mahāśatakaji acquired fun Avadhi Gnana, Visual Knowledge, and he was able to perceive and know objects as far as one thousand yojans in the Lavana Samudra, Salt Sea, in the East, in the South and in the West. In the remaining directions he was able to see as much as Ananda Śravaka did.
Once, when his wife taal Révati was haressing him, Mahāśātakaji became angry with her and knowing through the medium of his Avadhi Gnana he said "O Révati! overcome by diarrhoea, you will die with unbearing pain within seven days, and will be born as a ar Naraka, Hellish being with an age-limit of eighty-four thousand years in the hellden at Lolucchaya, in the first hell."
Révati on hearing these words, was greatly alarmed and she thought. "To day, Mahāśatakaji has become very angry with me and he will any how kill me." With this idea in her mind, she went home and passed her days miserably. As foretold by Mabasatakaji, she died and was born a a Naraka, a Hellish being.
At that time, Šramana Bhagavan Mahavira happened to arrive near the village. Śramana Bhagavan Mahāvīra narrated the account of the anger of Mahāśatakaji towards his wife Révati and of the language used by him and said, "O Gautama Mahāśataka has renouned his body in the monastery and has abstained from food and water till death. His body has become extremely emaciated because he has remained without food and water. It is not advisable that a man of his status should utter harsh words towards other individuals, even though the words utterred by him may be perfectly true. You therefore
