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all clothes which were, so to say, the last fetters of the worldly objects. Non-possession meant the giving up of home and kith and kin, and having nothing to sustain one's life.
On the addition of pratikramana, we have the following from the commentator :
sapaḍikkamano dhammo purimassa ya pacchimassa ya jiņassa majjhimagāṇam jiṇāṇaṁ kāraṇajāe padikkamaṇaṁ.
[The religion of the first Tirthankara as that of Mahāvīra prescribed pratikramana as compulsory; the religion of the remaining 22 Tirthankaras prescribed pratikramana only when there was occasion for it. In Mahāvideha, too, pratikramaṇa is not compulsory, and is prescribed only when there occasion for it.
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41. Worthy of note is that Chapter One of this Sataka started by mentioning the sun; Chapter Ten ends with reference to the moon.
