Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.s1.56

v1.c5.s1.56

While Ānamda lived the life of an upāsaka for a period of fourteen years and was running the fifteenth year he thought that he had many distractions while at home and therefore decided to pass the remaining life in pausadhaśāla practising the eleven paṭimas (standards or ideals) of an upāsaka He therefore arranged a feast invited his friends and relations and in their presence entrusted the family affairs to his eldest son left the house and entered the pausadhaśāla 3 In the end he gave up all types of food including water While living in this state of strict abstinence he acquired avadhi jñāna (limited direct knowledge) having an extent of five hundred yojanas up to the seas in the east west and south and up to Cullahimavanta in the north In the upward direction it reached the Sohamma celestial region and in the downward direction it reached the Loluyaccuya infernal abode Ānamda asked Imdabhūi if a householder could acquire avadhi jñāna Imdabhūi replied that he could. Thereupon Ānamda told him the limits of his avadhi jñāna Imdabhūi however thought that householders could not obtain avadhi jñāna of such a vast extent and hence asked Ānamda to expiate for the wrong he had committed in telling a lie Ānamda levelled the same charge against Imdabhūi The case was then referred to Mahāvīra Imdabhūi asked whether he or Ānamda was in the wrong Mahāvīra said that Ānamda was in the right and therefore Imdabhūi should confess his guilt and expiate for the same He further directed Imdabhūi to ask the pardon of Ānamda 4