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SUVIDHINATHACARITRA
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clairvoyant knowledge, fifteen hundred who knew the purvas and the same number with mind-reading knowledge, seventy-five hundred who were omniscient, thirteen thousand who possessed the art of transformation, six thousand disputants, two hundred and twenty-nine thousand laymen, four hundred and seventy-two thousand laywomen formed the retinue of the Lord wandering for a lac of purvas less twenty-eight angas and four months after his omniscience.
His mokṣa (148-153)
Then the Master went to Mt. Sammeta with a thousand rishis, commenced a fast, and continued so for a month. Absorbed in saileśi-meditation, the Master and the rishis went to an imperishable abode on the ninth day of the black half of Nabha in the constellation Mula. He spent half a lac of purvas as prince; half a lac of purvas plus twenty-eight angas in care of the kingdom; half a lac of purvas less twenty-eight angas in the vow; so the total age of Suvidhi Svāmin was two lacs of purvas. Suvidhi Svamin's nirvāņa was nine crores of sāgaropamas after the nirvāņa of Śrī Candraprabha.
According to rule the Indras made an unequaled nirvāṇa-festival together with the funeral rites of the ninth Arhat and the thousand munis. After that they went to their respective palaces with their retinues.
Extinction of the congregation (154-164)
A little while after Suvidhi Svamin's nirvana, an extinction of sadhus took place through the fault of the falling wheel of time. The people who did not know dharma, asked the laymen-elders about it, as travelers, confused about the road, ask (other) travelers. To the laymen telling them something about dharma in accordance with their own character, the people made worship with objects suitable for laymen. They became greedy because
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