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## The Great Renunciation
This is a comparative description of where and in what form the verses of the Great Renunciation, apart from the death-verse, are available in the Mágam literature, the miscellaneous literature, the exegetical literature of the Agamas, and the Digambara tradition in the form of Agamas.
[1]
I make this renunciation to the Tirthankaras, the supreme conquerors. To all the Jinas, the Siddhas, and the Sanjayas.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 1)
[2]
To the Siddhas, free from all suffering, I bow. I accept the Jina-path, the path of liberation, as my own.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 2)
[3]
Whatever is wrong, I condemn it in all respects. I renounce the three types of attachment, completely and without reservation.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 3)
[4]
I renounce the external, the internal, and the intermediate, the body and all its parts, with my mind, speech, and body, in all three ways.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 4)
[5]
I renounce attachment, bondage, passion, greed, hatred, anger, fear, sorrow, and the cycle of birth and death.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 5)
[6]
I renounce anger, prejudice, deceit, and pride. Whatever is said to me, I renounce it in all three ways.
(Great Renunciation, Verse 6)