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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
$ 143] Nirayávaliyão
111 In that city of Manivaiyã there lived a householder named Puņnabhadda who was rich and so forth. At that time and at that period certain elderly monks,who were posse88ed of the Jatismarana knowledge (a knowledge which enables one to know one's previous birth ) (and so forth, down to), who were free from the danger of life and death, who were very learned, who constituted a large group, and who were wandering from town to town, gradually came there on a religious visit. The assembly went out to hear them. Then that householder Puņnabhadda getting intelligence about this thing ( and so forth as in the case of Gangadatta in the Pannatti Satra, down to ) went into that very direction from which he came. Then his renunciation ( and so forth, down to) he became a self-restrained anchorite.
143, Theu that houseless monk Punnabhadda studied under the elderly monks the eleven Angas such as the Sãmãiyax and others, and having done so he observed many two days' fasts, three days' fasts ( and so forth, down to ) he practised asceticism for a long time; and having done so he observed monthly fasts in which sixty meals are cut off
+ See foot-note on p. 52
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