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Svayambhūstotra
destruction-cum-subsidence of his knowledge-obscuring karmas. He reconstructed the Divine Teachings of Lord Mahāvīra in the form of Holy Scripture, known as dvādaśānga including fourteen pūrva. The Scripture contained the most comprehensive and accurate description of every branch of learning that one needs to know. The knowledge contained in the Scripture was transmitted orally by the Preceptors to their disciple saints.
Indrabhūti (Gautama) Svāmī attained omniscience on the day Lord Mahāvīra attained liberation. During the next sixty-two years, sequentially, two more anubaddha kevalī attained omniscience (kevalajñāna)-Sudharmācārya and Jambūsvāmī.
O Lord Mahāvīra! Your Divine Teachings are the most resplendent jewels on this earth.
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