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CHAPTER FOUR omniscience consisted of sixteen thousand sșis (sādhus), thirtyeight thousand noble sadhvis, three hundred and fifty who knew the fourteen pūrvas, fourteen hundred who had clairvoyant knowledge, seven hundred and fifty who had mind-reading knowledge, one thousand omniscients, eleven hundred who had the art of transformation, six hundred noble disputants, one lac and sixty-four thousand laymen, and three lacs and seventyseven thousand laywomen.
His emancipation (316–321) Knowing that his emancipation was near, the Lord went to Mt. Sammeta, accompanied by thirty-three munis, and fasted for a month. The Teacher of the World, together with the thirty-three munis, attained the place from which there is no return on the eighth of the white half of Srāvaņa, (the moon being) in Viśākhā.
Thirty years as householder, seventy in keeping the vowsso the age of Śrī Pārśva Svāmin was one hundred years. The emancipation of the Supreme Lord, Sri Pārsvanātha, took place eighty-three thousand, seven hundred and fifty years from the day of Sri Nemi's emancipation. The lords of gods, Sakra and the others, came to Mt. Sammeta’s peak, accompanied by the gods. Subject to an excess of grief, they celebrated splendidly the emancipation-festival of the Supreme Lord, Pārsva.
The ones who, believing, bring the biography of Pārsvanātha, purifying the three worlds, within the range of hearing—from them misfortunes go away; and they would be remarkably prosperous, and they go to the final abode, What else?
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