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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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incantations, some emetic (a), purge, enema, herb or drug which may enable her to conceive and give birth to child. This records, in a way, a social custom prevalent in those days. In our modern society also a knowledge of the abovementioned things is believed to be possessed by so-called saints, ascetics, and houseless beggars.
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Page 50. gangeaaffo dei, a palanquin carried by thousand men,
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Page 51., plucking out five handfuls of hair. fà etc, this is a stereotyped passage to be uttered by the candidate for initiation before preceptor. It is to this effect:-"Oh l revered Sir ! this world is on fire which is in the form of old age and death. Therefore I wish to reuounce it. Just as a man, seeing that his house is on fire, brings out costly articles fron it with the only intention that they will be hel ping him in his remaining life, in the same fashion oh revered Sir! I have come here before you bringing with me my dear soul from that worldly fire with a sole desire that it will, if rightly disciplined, entitle me to emancipation. This is, so to say, a sacred assurance, given to the preceptor, of the candidate's non-attachment towards the world and a keen desire to practise
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