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The Last Five Upangas [ III. Lect. 1.
Then Jambu asked: "If O Reverend Sir, the Ascetic, the blessed Mahăvîra, ( and so forth, down to ) who has obtained emancipation has expounded ten lectures of the third section called Pupphiya, what then, O Reverend Sir, has been expounded as the purport of the first lecture called Chanda by the Ascetic, the blessed Mahavira, who has obtained emancipation? Then Mahavira answered: "Truly, in this way O Jambû!"
Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
79. At that time and at that period there was a city named Rayagiha, a temple named Gunasilaa and a king named Seniya. At that time and at that period, Chanda, the moon, the king and the lord of heavenly bodies, passed his time in the Chandavadinsaya Vimāņa, in the assembly-hall Suhamma, on the throne Chanda in the company of four thousand residents of the same place. There experiencing and seeing, by the virtue of his Avadhi knowledge, the whole of this continent of Jambuddiva, he visited the Ascetic, the blessed Mahavira (everything else is to be described here exactly as Sûriyabha in the Rayapaseniyasutta) after having invited the servant god (and so forth, down to) asking him to prepare chariot fit for approaching the lord of gods
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