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1. The Lord (Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahavira ) told Väyubhūti who had a doubt that the Body and the Soul is the same "Why do you not trace out the exact meaning of the verses of the Vedas?
Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra then explained Vayubbūti the correct meanings of the verses of the Vedas.
Vāyubhūti accordingly took 1 Dikśā, Initiation, at the hands of Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra along with his five hundred pupils.
Gaşadhara Vāyuhhūti was forty-two years old when he renounced the world; ten years later i-e at the age of fiftytwo, he acquired # a Kévala Gnāna, Perfect Knowledge. He remained a Kévali for eighteen years and when he acquired ANTE Moksha Pada, State of Final Emancipation, he was seventy years old. He died at Rājagriha Tha during the lifetime of Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvira.
Ganadhara Vyakta.
Ga nadhara Vyakta of Bhāradvaja Gotra was the fourth Ganadhara of Sramana Bhagavān Mabāvīra, He was born at Kullaka-gāma. His father was wáfay Dharma-mitra and his mother was Figut Vāruni. He was a Brāhmin by caste. He was well-versed in the four Védas and the six vins Upāngas, Supplementary Sciences. He had five hundred pupils, who were receiving instruction in various branches of learning under him.
He had a doubt in his mind about the five as Bhuta, Elements-the five gross elements-Earth, Water, fire, Air and Ether of which the body is supposed to be composed and into which it is finally dissolved. He said that there was not bing
