Book Title: Sthaviravali
Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay
Publisher: Jain Granth Prakashak Sabha

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________________ 69 neck and woke up the whole night, with the object of satisfying his carnal desires. Waking up during night and indigestion of an excessive quality of food and drink-material produced diarrhoea accompanied with vomiting. He suffered agonizing pains. His stomach became full-blown like bellows perfectly filled with air. There was tight blocking up of wind and he had intense thirst. His ministers and others, thinking that the wicked man had broken his vows did not do any medicinal treatment for him and did not allow any one else to do the treatment for him. He was suffering severe pain. He thought "If I, any how, get over this illness, I will have all these officers and their family-members killed brutally in the morning. With such evil ideas, and formidable sentiments of wrath, Kundarika died during the night and was born as a Naraka, a hellish being in अप्रतिष्टान नरकाबास Apratistāna Narakāvāsa, a hellish den named Apratistāna, in the seventh hell." "3 "Therefore, O members of the assembly! emaciation or plumpness of the body among strict ascetics is not an essential element. Good meditation is the only causal agent of Blissful life," Vaiśrama na Déva heard attentively the account of Pundarika and Kundarika narrated by Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhuti Gautama. He acquired Samyaktva, Right: belief from that moment, and becoming glad by the explanation given by Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhūti Gautama about the doubt lingering in his mind, he bowed down respectfully once more before him and went to his abode. Having finished the preaching, Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhuti Gautama remained there, for the night, and in the morning he commenced to get down from the mountain. When Ganadhara Mahārāja Indrabhuti Gautama was on a pilgrimage to Erfaf Ashtapada-giri, Mount Ashtapada, fifteen hundred hermits named कोडन्य Kodanya, दत्त Dutta, सेबाल Sèvala and others, knowing Ashtapada-giri to be a means

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