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noose, and one in varada-position, one left hand carrying a bow, and one in abhaya-position, became a messengerdeity of the Jinendra Padmaprabha.
With these two always near, the Master of the World wandered in villages, mines, cities, etc. with a desire to benefit all.
His congregation (184-190)
Three hundred and thirty-six thousand monks, four hundred and twenty thousand nuns, twenty-three hundred who knew the fourteen purvas, ten thousand who had clairvoyant knowledge, ten thousand and three hundred who had mind-reading knowledge, twelve thousand who were omniscient, sixteen thousand, one hundred and eight who had the art of transformation, nine thousand and six hundred disputants, two hundred and seventy-six thousand laymen, and five hundred and five thousand lay women formed the retinue of the Lord wandering for a lac of purvas less sixteen angas and six months from the time of his omniscience.
CHAPTER FOUR
His mokṣa (191-197)
The Supreme Lord, knowing that it was time for his mokşa, went to Mt. Sammeta and fasted for a month. On the eleventh day of the black half of Margaśīrṣa, the moon being in Citra, the Lord, of whom the four remaining karmas had been destroyed, possessing the four infinities of siddhas, went from the fourth meditation to the fourth object of men's existence, together with eight hundred and three monks who had fasted.
As prince he spent seven and a half lacs of pūrvas plus sixteen angas; in protection of the kingdom twenty-one and a half lacs of purvas; and in the vow a lac of purvas less sixteen angas. So Lord Padmaprabha lived for thirty lacs of purvas. The nirvāņa of Lord Padmaprabha was
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