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HERESY OF JAMĀLI, DEATH OF GOŚĀLA 213 vows and restrictions and gave up women except the wives.
Nandinipity (331–333) One day in his wandering the Blessed One went to the city Srāvasti and stopped in the garden named Koșthaka in it. There was a householder, Nandinīpits, whose wealth was equal to Ananda's. Of him there was a wife, Aśvini, like Aśvini of the Moon. From paying homage to Sri Mahāvira he heard a sermon and, like Ānanda, took the lay vows and restrictions.
Lāntikāpit; (334–335) In the same place there was a householder, Lāntikāpit;, whose wealth was equal to Ānanda’s and his wife, named Phālguni, who spoke little and beautifully. Hearing a sermon at the feet of Sri Vira Svāmin, he took lay vows and restrictions like Ananda.
So there were ten chief lay-disciples of Sri Vira Svāmin, firm as mountains, who could not be shaken from their state as laymen even by gods.
The ten wonders (337–353) Thus, awakening souls capable of emancipation, like the sun day-lotuses, the Supreme Lord went again to the town Kaušāmbi. In the last quarter of the day the sun and moon, occupying their eternal aerial cars, came together to this town to pay homage to the Lord. The sky being lighted up by the brilliance of their aerial cars, the people stayed there just as they were, their minds full of curiosity. However, Candanā, the head-nun, knowing that it was time to rise to leave, bowed to Vira, and went with her attendants to her own dwelling.
But Mșgāvati did not know that night had come because of the brilliance spread by the Sun present there and she stayed there from the mistaken idea that it was day. When Mrgāvati knew that it was night, the Sun and Moon having
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