
Kundagrama, and a kingdom that grew richer.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
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Kundagrama, and a kingdom that grew richer.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
A year of standing, vines around his legs.
From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra
A rabbit sheltering under an elephant in a forest fire.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
A snake calmed by kindness.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra

If I have hurt you, I am sorry.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
An elephant, a bull, a lion, a garland of flowers.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Two brothers and three contests.
From the original text · Trishashti-shalaka-purusha-charitra
Why a Jain monk sweeps the ground.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Eight days of looking inside.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
The birthday of the twenty-fourth Jina.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Vardhamana and the serpent in the garden.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Dharanendra and Padmavati.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Mahavira's nirvana night.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Everything given away.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Fourteen dreams, read aloud.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Walking, fasting, forgiving.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Going to the Jain temple.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Each felt one part of the elephant.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Under the sal tree by the Rijuvalika.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Owning less, playing more.
From the original text · Jain moral tales
Eleven scholars become his students.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
A girl in chains who gave the last handful.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
Why Jains light lamps on Diwali night.
From the original text · Kalpa Sutra
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