Part 15: Ṛṣabha’s congregation

Wandering in various countries, the Blessed One favored people by the gift of enlightenment like the blind by the gift of an eye. At the time of the Lord’s omniscience there were eighty-four thousand ascetics, three hundred thousand nuns; three hundred fifty thousand laymen, and five hundred fifty-four thousand laywomen; four thousand seven hundred fifty of those knowing the fourteen pūrvas; nine thousand sādhus who had clairvoyant knowledge; twenty thousand sādhus who possessed kevala; twenty thousand six hundred noble ascetics who had the vaikriya-labdhi; twelve thousand six hundred and fifty each of disputants and those having manaḥparyaya; twenty-two thousand mahatmas to be reborn in the Anuttara-palaces, (in the congregation) of the Lord of the World. Thus the Blessed One, the first Tīrthakṛt, established the fourfold congregation in dharma, as well as his subjects in customs.