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102 Universal Message of Lord Mahāvīra
“With supreme knowledge, with supreme intuition, with supreme conduct, with supreme uprightness, with supreme valour and fortitude, with unmatched dexterity, patience and spirit of contentment, with most unique insight, the Most Venerable One (Lord Mahāvīra) meditated for twelve and a half years in selfcontemplation and proceeded on the supreme path to that final liberation, the fruit of truthfulness, restraint and good conduct". Kalpasūtra, 120.
"And, therefore, now the venerable ascetic Mahāvīra became a Jina (conqueror), an Arhat (worthy of reverential worship) and a Kevalī (omni cient) comprehending anything and everything. He became the 24h Tirthankara of the present era" - Kalpasūtra, 121.
All this happened on the thirteenth year of his sādhanā, on the tenth day of the bright half of the Vaišākha month, at 'Jambhiyagrāma', under a huge 'Śāla' tree (banyan), on the banks of the river 'Rjubālukā', while the Lord, facing the sun, in the 'Godohikā' (milking) posture, attained infinite knowledge, intuition, energy and bliss!
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