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: Prabhava went to the place and on seeing Jambū Kumāra busily engaged in conversation with his wives, lulled Jambū Kumāra's eight wives to sleep by means of his Avasvāpini Vidyā and tried to take away valuable ornaments and costly garments from their bodies.
Jambu Kumāra instantly fixed Prabhava and his comrades to their respective places by means of Eafturat faul Stambhini Vidyā, the art of making living beings and other objects immovable, so they were unable to take away their highlydesired booty.
Prabhava then told Jambū Kumāra "O Jambū! You teach me your Stambhini Vidya. I will show you my Tālodghā tini Vidyā and Avasvāpinî Vidya.
Jambū Kumara replied. “What is the use of these Vidyas (arts to me? I am going to instruct my eight wives during the night and renouncing all my wealth I am going to take roafa ft Bhāgavati Dikśā in the morning.
Prabhava was greatly astonished on hearing these words and he said “Why do you abandon these varions pleasures of the world and take Dikśā ? Jambu Kumāra, thereupon, explained to him the transitoriness of the pleasures of this world and Prabhava, having heard the stories and the entire line of discussion of Jambū Kumāra with his wives, made up his mind to renounce the world in the morning.
Prabhava then went to Gañadhara Mahārāja Sudharma Swāmi and took Dīkšā in the morning along with Jambū Kumāra and bis eight newly--married wives, Jambū Kumāra's parents and parents-in-law, and his own five hundred comrades.
After Dikśā, Prabhava Muni studied the eleven Angas "and the fourteen Pūrvas and practised severe austerities.
Prabhava Muni was thirty years old at the time of initiration. He remained an ordinary ascetic for forty-four years. Then, he
