Part 24: Omniscience of Śreyāṃsa

Now the Lord, Blessed Śreyāṃsa, wandering for two months as an ordinar ascetic, reached the grove Sahasrāmravaṇa. As the Master stood at the foot of an aśoka, engaged in meditation, being at the unshakable end of the second pure meditation, his destructive karmas—knowledge- and belief-obscuring, deluding, and obstructive—disappeared like a ball of wax in a fire. On the fifteenth day of the black half of Māgha, the moon being in conjunction with Śravaṇa, by means of a two-day fast, the Lord’s omniscience became manifest.

The eleventh Arhat, endowed with supernatural powers, delivered a sermon in a samavasaraṇa made there by the gods. By that sermon of the Lord many people were enlightened. Some adopted complete self-control; others partial self-control.^[1] There were seventy-six gaṇabhṛts, Gośubha and others, who composed the twelve scriptures after hearing the three steps from the Master.