Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v1.c5.s20.285
Prakrit Proper Names (Āgamic Index I) v1.c5.s20.285
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1 Pabhāsa (Prabhasa) Eleventh Gaṇadhara (principal disciple) of Mahāvīra He was son of Bala(5) and Aibhadḍa of Rāyagiha He was a great Brāhmaṇa scholar of his time He had doubt about the reality of liberation (mokṣa or nirvāṇa) Mahāvīra apprehended this and removed his doubt about it Convinced and impressed by the forceful arguments advanced by Mahāvīra he bacame his disciple along with his three hundred pupils He attained emancipation at the age of forty in the lifetime of Mahāvīra