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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
SS 25-26.] Niraya valiyão. : 17 pattikî ', (2) Disciplined- Vainayiki', (3) the talent acquired by practice- Karmaja ’ and (4) Developed talent or the talent acquired by maturity of age- Pärinimikî ', * and yet not getting any remedy, means or condition for fulfilling that pregnancy-desire and having his longing shattered (and so forth, down to began to brood over.
26. Meanwhile, prince Abhaya, having taken his bath (and so forth, down to ) having decoratoil his body, came out of his palace, and having done so he went into the outside anti-chamber where king Seniya was, and saw king Seniya whose longing was not fulfilled ( and so forth as above, down to ) and having done so spoke thus: “ O father, on other occasions you become delighted (and so forth, down to ) and possessed of a cheerful heart; how is it that to-day you are sitting, as it were, with your longing not fulfilled and brooding over ? Therefore, O father, if I am worthy of hearing this thing tell it to me exactly as it has happened, truly and without any suspicion so that I may carry out that thing.”
For a fuller and det:iled explanation on these "Four Talents agafe' ofien alluied to in Jain books and the stories illustrating thom, refer to the notes on the samo term in my Edition of Sisiriçãlakală Part 1, pp 9 to 35.
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