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Sarvarthasiddhi
[9198814F814. Tat-swaroopa-sankhya-samprapatti-artham aah-kshud-pipasa-sheeta-ushna-dansha-mashaka-agni-arati-stree-charya-nishadya-ashaya-akrosh-yachana
laabha-roga-truna-sparsha-mala-satkar-puruskar-prajna-ajnana-adarshanaani ||9||
8815. Kshud-aadyo vedana-vishesha dvaavimshati. Etesham sahanam moksha-arthina kartavyam. Tadyatha-bhikshu-niravadya-ahaar-gaveshina tad-alaabhe eeshal-laabhe cha anivritta-vedanasya akale adeshe cha bhiksham prati nivritta-ichhasya avashyaka-pariharaani manaag-apy-asahamanasya svaadhyaaya-dhyaan-bhaavana-parasya bahukritvah svakrita-parakrita-anashava-maudaryasya neeras-ahaarasyas santapta-bhrashtra-patita-jala-bindhu-katipaya-vatsa-sahasa parishushka-paanasya udorn-kshud-vedanasya api sato bhikshalaabhaad-alaabham adhik-gunam manyamanasya kshud-baadham pratyachintanam kshud-vijaya.
8816. Jalasnaana-avagaahana-parisheka-parityagina pattra-trivad-aniyata-asana-vasathasya ati-lavan. Snigdha-ruksha-viruddha-ahaar-greshama-tapa-pitta-jvara-anashaadibhir-adeerna shareera-indriya-onmaathini pipasam pratyanaadriyamaan-pratikaarasya pipasa-nala-shikham dhritina-navamrid-ghata-purita-sheetala-sugandhi-samaadhi-vaarina prasashayatah pipasa-sahan prasasyate.
8817. Parityakta-prachhadanasya pakshivad-anavdhaarita-alayasyavruksha-moola-pathi-shila-talaadishu
8814. Now, to make known the nature and number of these trials, the next aphorism is spoken:
Hunger, thirst, cold, heat, bites of insects, nakedness, aversion, women, walking, sitting, lying down, crying out, begging, lack of gain, disease, contact with grass, excrement, honor and dishonor, knowledge, ignorance, and non-perception, these are the trials. ||9||
8815. Hunger and the other specific pains are twenty-two in number. A seeker of liberation should endure these. For example, a mendicant who seeks blameless food, who does not experience the pain of hunger when he does not get food or when he gets only a little, who does not desire food at the wrong time or in the wrong place, who does not endure even a little loss of what is necessary, who is devoted to study, meditation, and contemplation, who has repeatedly performed austerities of fasting and humiliation, who eats tasteless food, whose throat is dry like a few drops of water that have fallen into a very hot vessel, who, even when the pain of hunger is aroused, considers the lack of food to be more meritorious than the gain of food, his non-thinking about the pain of hunger is the conquest of the trial of hunger.
8816. He who has renounced bathing in water, immersing himself in it, and being sprinkled with it, whose seat and dwelling are not fixed like those of a bird, who is not distressed by excessive salty, oily, or dry food, by the heat of the sun, by fever due to bile, by fasting, and so on, who does not feel aversion to the thirst that arises from these and that agitates the body and senses, and who quenches the fire of thirst with the cool, fragrant water of meditation, filled in a new earthen pot of fortitude, his endurance of thirst is praiseworthy.
8817. He who has renounced clothing, whose dwelling is not fixed like that of a bird, who lives at the roots of trees, on paths, or on the surface of rocks,