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flowers taken from all sides that it looked to the townspeople like a mountain of flowers. There he made an eight-day festival, wonderful with excellent concerts, plays, etc., just like Sakra's in Nandisvara. After giving instructions to the guards and priests there, the King, knowing what was proper, bowed, and went to his own city.
The Lord's kevala (386–399)
Independent, unstumbling like the wind, practicing various and manifold penances, persevering in manifold vows, the Blessed One wandered for a thousand years as easily as a day in Mleccha-countries-Yavana, Domba, etc., observing silence, making non-Aryas well-disposed to others just from the sight of him, untouched by disturbances, enduring trials. The Blessed One, Vṛṣabha-bannered, went to Purimatala, the chief suburb of the great city Ayodhya. To the north of it was a beautiful grove Sakatamukha, that was like a second. Nandana, which the Lord occupied. After fasting for four days, standing in meditation under a banyan tree, he attained the gunasthāna called apramatta. 282 Then after ascending the apūrvakarana (the eighth), he attained the first pure meditation. Then having attained anivṛtti (the ninth) and sūkṣmasamparāya (the tenth), the Teacher of the World instantly achieved destruction of the passions.238 After he had destroyed greed which was instantly precipitated by that very meditation, he was in a state of 'passions suppressed' like water cleared by a clearing-nut. Then instantly he reached the second pure meditation, and in the next moment his delusion was destroyed (twelfth guṇasthāna).
232 301. The seventh gunasthana. For the guṇasthānas see
App. III.
283 393. Only 3 kaşayas were really destroyed at this stage. Slight greed remained.
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