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does he not get the proper food in this vast city? Please, use your brain and find solution to this problem." Shatanika, the King of Vaishali, and his Queen Mrugavati were also very worried. The noblemen of the city who knew the means of winning over enemies were quite ignorant of why a great yogi refused to accept food offered to him in alms. Even the persuasive powers of such statesmen to convince Mahavira to have a morsel of food was of no avail.
Acceuing alms from
Chandanbala
Mahavira had entered the city of Kaushambi on the first day of the dark
half of the month of Posha. On that day he made a secret resolution (Abhigraha). It was not an ordinary resolutior and would be extremely difficult in fulfilling It related to the four conditions of (i) substance, (ii) place, (iii) time and (iv) state. Mahavira resolved that he would accept: (i) boiled unsplit black beans
in alms; (ii) the black beans should be
those in a corner of a
winnowing basket. (iii) the black beans from a
person whose one foot was in the threshold and the other foot out of the
threshold; and (iv) the black beans given when
the lunchtime was ever.
He also resolved that the person offering him black beans should be a pure chaste princess turned a slave-girl with chains in her legs, head clean shaven, eyes wet with tears and who had been
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