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Long Austerities of Tirthankara Mahavir

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Long Austerities of Tirthankara Mahavir

Time and Four-month-stay with ordinal No.	Type of Austerity	Place of Austerity	Place of Breaking the fast	Name of a person who offered food for breaking fast	Food with which the fast was broken
At the time of renunciation	two-day-long-fast	Kshatriyakunda	Kollaga	Bahula Brahmana	Preparation of rice, milk and sugar (Khira)
Four- month- stay- 1	fifteen-day-long-fast	Moraka Asthika	Kollaga
After four- month- stay	fifteen- day-long-fast	Kanakakhala Hermitage	Uttara Vacala	Nagasena	Preparation of rice, milk and sugar
Four- month- stay-2	one-mondvlong-iast- 1 one-month-long-fast-2 one-month-long-fast-3 one-month-long-fest-4	Nalanda Nalanda Nalanda Nalanda	Nalanda Nalanda Nalanda Kollage	Vijaya Shresthi Ananda Sunandaa Bahula Brahmana	Preparation of kura etc. Sweet cooked food Preparation of rice, milk and sugar Preparation of rice, milk and sugar
After four- month- stay	Two-day-long-fast	Brahmana	-	Nanda	Rice mixed with curds
Four- month- stay-3	2 one-month-long-fast 2 one-month-long-fast	Champa Champa	Outside Champa town Outside Champa town
Four-month- stay-4	Four-month-long-fast	Prushtha Champa	Outside Champa town
Four-month-stay-5	-	Bhadrika	Outside Champa town
Four-month-stay-6	-	Bhadrika	Outside Champa town
Four- month- stay- 7	-	Alarnbhika	Outside Champa town
Four-month-stay-8	with various self-imposed restrictions (abhigraha)	Rajagruha	Outside Champa town
Four-month-stay-9	four- month-long- fast	Vajrabhumi	Outside Champa town
Four-month-stay- 10	with diverse austerities	Shravasti	Outside Champa town	Bahulaa Maid-Servant	Rice mixed with sugar
After-four-month-stay	Bhadra, Mahabhadra and Sarvatobhadra Pratima (two-day- long, four-day-long and ten-day-long fasts)	-	-
After four- month- stay	six-naonth-long fast (due to Sangama god)	Pedhala	-	Vatsupalikaa	Preparation of rice, milk and sugar
Four-month-stay- 1 1	four- month- long-fast	Vaishali	Vaishali	Maid servant of Purana Merchant	Boiled unsplit black beans
After-four-month-stay	five -month-twenty-five-day- long- fast (due to self-imposed restriction)	Kaushambi	Kaushambi	Chandanabala beans	Boiled unsplit black
Four-month-stay- 1 2	Four-month-long-fast	Champa	Champa
Four-month-stay-42	two-day-long-fast	Pavapuri at the time of his death	-

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