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.MAHAVIRA'S WANDERING AS AN ASCETIC 123 a half; one of the triad of penances, bhadrā, et cetera; one of six months lacking five days accompanied by his vow in the city Kaušāmbi; twelve penances of one night with fasts of three days, accompanied by kāyotsarga in the last night; two hundred and twenty-nine fasts of two days observed by the Lord; and there never was a day on which he ate all meals nor was there ever a one-day fast. There were three hundred and forty-nine fast-breaking days of the Lord. Thus there were twelve years, six months and a half from the day he took the vow.
After practicing penance, all of it deprived of water, in this way, wandering as an ordinary ascetic, with the attacks overcome, the Master went to the hamlet Jşmbhaka which was provided with the great river, Rjupālikā.
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