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OMNISCIENCE OF MAHĀVIRA
323 couch of grass, sat down, and reflected:
“My master's work has been done with all my soul and body. Now death is at hand. It is certainly time for my own business. May all the revered Arhats, Siddhas, and sādhus, the religion taught by the Omniscient, be my refuge. I pardon all souls. May they all pardon me. There is friendliness on my part toward all existing things. There is hostility on my part toward no one. Nothing is mine; nor do I belong to any one. Whatever action in my own interest I performed, I renounce that. What abodes of evil, did I, deluded, not serve? May that sin of me. free from passion now, be uncommitted, as it were. Whatever sin I committed as god, man, animal, or hell-inhabitant, I repent that. The Arhat, Sri Vira, is my refuge.” After making an ārādhanā like this, he renounced the four kinds of food and thought of the namaskāra in deep meditation.
At that time a friend of Varuņa, a heretic, left the battle, came to Varuņa and said: “ Friend, bought by your friendship, now without knowing it I have accepted the path followed by you.” Desisting from the namaskāra, absorbed in pious meditation, Varuņa attained a death in concentrated meditation and went to Saudharma. After completing a life of four palyopamas in its palace Aruņābha, born in the Videhas, he will attain emancipation.
As a result of Varuņa's path though followed in ignorance, after his friend had died, he again became a human in good family. After again attaining a human-birth in a good family in the Videhas and adopting the path to emancipation, he will reach the place of emancipation.
When Varuņa had died, Cetaka's soldiers became doubly energetic in fighting, like a wild boar touched by a stick. Kūņika's army was beaten angrily by Cetaka's soldiers, biting their lips from anger, commanded by the vassal-kings. When Kūņika had seen his own army being beaten, he ran forward, fierce with anger, like a lion struck by a clod. Kūņika, the elephant of heroes, playing on the battle-field
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