Prakrit Proper Names (Agamic Index I) v2.c8.s2.699

v2.c8.s2.699

Thus, the venerable Mahāvīra passed twelve years of his ascetic life with equanimity, performed hard and long penances and endured all afflictions and calamities with undisturbed mind.⁷¹ During the thirteenth year on the tenth day of the bright fortnight of the month of Vaiśākha when the moon was in conjunction with constellation Hatthuttarā and the shadow had turned towards the east, Mahāvīra obtained omniscience under a Śāla tree in the farm of Sāmāga on the northern bank of river Ujjuvāliyā outside the town of Jambhiyagāma.⁷²