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the Lord of the World arose, went to the middle wall, and sat down on the dais placed in the northeast. Vajranābha the gañadhara, seated on the Master's foot-stool, delivered a sermon. A śrutakevalin, he was looked upon by the people as a kevalin.408 Heended the sermon at the close of the second watch of the day. After bowing to the Arhat, all the gods, etc. went to their respective abodes.
The Śāsanadevatās (157–160) In this congregation arose Yakseśvara, dark, with an elephant for a vehicle, his two right hands holding a citron and a rosary, his two left hands carrying an ichneumon and a goad, a messenger-deity always near the Lord. Likewise Kālikā appeared, dark-colored, seated on a lotus, one right hand in varada-position and one holding a noose, her two left hands holding a snake and a goad, a messengerdeity always in attendance on the Lord.
The congregation (161-166) Then the Master, endowed with the thirty-four supernatural powers, wandered in villages, mines, cities, etc. Three hundred thousand monks, six hundred and thirty thousand nuns, ninety-eight thousand endowed with clairvoyant knowledge, fifteen hundred who knew the pūrvas, eleven thousand, six hundred and fifty who had mindreading knowledge, fourteen thousand who were omniscient, nineteen thousand who had the art of transformation, eleven thousand disputants, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand laymen, five hundred and twenty-seven thousand laywomen were (the congregation of the Lord of the World as he wandered over the earth.
The Lord's mokṣa (168–175) After a lac of pūrvas less eight angas and eighteen years from the time of his omniscience, the Lord went to
408 155. I.e., although he was only well-versed in the Scripture, the people thought him omniscient.
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