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MAHAYOGI STHULABHADRA The ascetics returned to Pataliputra with the answer from Arya Bhadrabahu and conveyed it to Arya Sthulabhadra
Aryavar ! Send intelligent ascetics to Nepal. Arya Bhadrabahu
can teach them Drishtivad there
only.
Arya Sthulabhadra went himself with 499 ascetics to get lessons of Agams.
Arya Bhadrabahu started giving seven lectures every day. But to understand a complex and difficult Agam like Drishtivad was beyond ordinary ascetics. They
whisperedI hardly understand this complex subject.
I don't find it interesting at all.
Gradually all the 499 ascetics returned. Only resolute Sthulabhadra continued to take lessons for eight years.
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