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O long-lived (Gambûsvâmin )! I (Sudharman) have heard the following discourse from the venerable (Mahâvîra):

Here many do not remember whether they have descended in an eastern direction (when they were born in this world), or in a southern, or in a western, or in a northern direction, or in the direction from above, or in the direction from below, or in a direction intermediate (between the cardinal points), or in a direction intermediate between these (and the [22]