{"collection":"Jainism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jai/sbe22/sbe2281.htm","path":"jai/sbe22/sbe2281.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jai/sbe22/sbe2281.htm","text":"Jaina Sutras, Part II (SBE22), tr. by Hermann Jacobi, [1884]\nObeisance to the Arhats!\nObeisance to the Liberated Ones!\nObeisance to the Religious Guides!\nObeisance to the Religious Instructors! Obeisance to all Saints in the World!\nThis fivefold obeisance, destroying all sins, is of all benedictions the principal benediction.\nIn that period, in that age lived the Venerable Ascetic Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, the five (most important moments of whose life happened) when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Uttaraphalgun\u00ee; to wit, in Uttaraphalgun\u00ee he descended (from heaven), and having descended (thence), he entered the womb (of Dev\u00e2nand\u00e2); in Uttaraphalgun\u00ee he was removed from the womb (of Dev\u00e2nand\u00e2) to the womb (of Trisal\u00e2); in Uttaraphalgun\u00ee he was born; in Uttaraphalgun\u00ee, tearing out his hair, he left the house and entered the state of houselessness; in Uttaraphalgun\u00ee he obtained the highest knowledge and intuition, called Kevala, which is infinite, supreme, unobstructed,\nunimpeded, complete, and perfect. But in. Sv\u00e2ti the Venerable One obtained final liberation. (1) 1\nEnd of the First Lecture 2.","title":"Jaina Sutras, Part I (SBE22): Lives of the Ginas: Life of Mah\u00e2v\u00eera, Lecture 1","type":"page"}