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56 The Last Five Upangas [II. Lect. 1. monks the eleven Angas such as Sãmãiya +, and having observed asceticism for five years, and having destroyed his karmas by observing *monthly fasts in which sixty meals were cut off (for twelve years ), he in due course met with death. Then the elderly monks arrived there. Then Goyama asked the blessed Lord Mahãy ra ( and so forth, down to ) the Lord replied: “ Having destroyed his karmas by means of monthly fasts in which sixty meals are cut off, and having repented and made amendments, he is re-born as a god high up in the Chandima-sohamma heaven, the maximum duration of life where is two Sãgarovamas.
73. Then Goyama asked: “O Venerable Sir, where will the god Pauma, having dropped down from heaven after his alloted existence there, be re-born ? Then Mahivira replied: "O Goyama, he will be reborn in the country of Mahivideha ( and so forth exactly as in the case of Dadhapainna down to) will put an end to his existence. In
+ See foot-noto un P. 52.
i Samlekhanã, as referred to in the foot-note on p. 55, is a tochnical terin in Jainism denoting twelve years' life of severo penance as a preparatory ground for Anasana or religious death.
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