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1. Impact of Religious Stories

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Jainism preaches the holy ritual of Pratikraman twice a
day for every Jain householder. The prime sootra in this
Pratikraman is ‘Vandittu Sootra’ which is formed by the
great Ganadhara Bhagwants. Lord Mahavira established the
present Jain religious order on Vaishakh Suda 11. (11th day
of bright half month of Vaishakh). Lord Mahavira gave the
Ganadharas 3 golden words known as ‘Tripadi’. Based on it,
the Ganadharas created the entire Dvadashangi* in a span of
only an Antarmurhuta*. In this Dvadashangi, they created the
14 Poorvas ! What an endless ocean of knowledge !

How wonderful was that time when such an enormous treasure
of knowledge evolved ! It was at that particular time that the
essential routine sootras including the ‘Vanditta’ evolved !
Imagine the importance of each of these sootras and stanzas !
Vandittu is one of the most essential sootras and thus you can
imagine the importance of each and every stanza of Vandittu
sootra as well.

‘Gunawanta girua, vani mithi re ganadhara tani'

Thus the above verse ‘Chirasanchiya’ picked up from ‘Vandittu’
is also one of these wonderful creations. Then doesn’t it prove

* Dvadashangi - The vast Jain scriptures comprising 12 parts.
* Antarmurhuta - A time span ranging from 9 samay (unit of time more
minute than microseconds) to 48 minutes.
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