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श्री वर्द्धमान अपने साथियों के साथ वन में क्रीड़ा कर रहे थे, इतने में वहां एक महाभयानक, विशालकाय सर्प निकला और उस बृक्ष से लिपट गया जिसके पास वह खेल रहे थे । उस विकराल रूप नागदेव को देख कर दूसरे राजकुमार भयभीत होकर भागने लगे, परन्तु राजकुमार वर्द्धमान के हृदय में जरा भी भय का संचार नहीं हुआ-वह बिलकुल निर्भयचित्त होकर उसके विशाल फने पर पाँव रख कर खड़े होगये और उस काले नाग से ही क्रीड़ा करने
paralleled and no God. Demi-God. or Indra, however strong, he may be, is able to frighten Him away or defeat Him". One of the gods considering bow it is possible tbat Gods possessing immeasurable Strength can not defeat an earthly man, immediately went to test Lord Vardhamana's fortitude and with the object to terrify him. bě assumed the form of a fomidable Suge venomous snake, with a large body resembling a mass of collyrium the thicket of the forest by bis intense blackness and well-developed hood, producing terrible noise, advanced rapidly with a very wrathful gait towards Vardhamana, but He threw him far off like a withered piece of string. Having ascertained the truthfulness, the God repended for big sinsul action. He bowed down before Vardhamana and said, “O Lord of the three worlds! You are able to shake Mount Meru and with it the entire earth with the touch of the toe of your foot, o Supreme Being! I am a god only in name but not in action, you please forgive ce for my impudent' behaviour".-Sramana Bhugawan Mabavira. Vol. II.
Part II. P.214-217. 8-2 Mahavira put bis feet on the expanded hood of the
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