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Events surrounding this event are reenacted in a Snatra puja offered on a holiday during Chaitra celebrating it. This event is commemorated by one sect with recitations on the fourth or fifth days of a monsoon-season festival that ends with Samvatsari, during which people grant "forgiveness to all living beings" and ask for the same. Omens foreshadowing this event included a golden vase filled with water, a lake filled with lotuses, and a smokeless fire. During this event from the most recent occurrence of the five (*) Kalyanakas, which occurred near Vaishali, Indra descended to perform abhisheka on its central subject. On the fifth day of Paryushana, an account from the Kalpa Sutra of Trishala Mata’s fourteen or sixteen auspicious dreams preceding this event (10[1]-5[1])may be recited by Svetambaras. For 10 points, name this event (10[1])that concluded the pregnancy of the mother of the last tirthankara. ■END■ (10[1])

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