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women, men, young people, old people and youths, not becoming wrathful even by mind towards them, bore, put up with patience, endured and suffered with equanimity. Bearing with equanimity [etc.], wandering in the city of Rayagiha, in the families high, low and middle-class, he when he got food, did not get water; when he got water, he did not get food. Then that garland-maker Ajjunaya, never sorrowful, despirited, with mind not turbid, unpurturbed, ungrieved, not exhausted in self-restraint,-moved about went out of the city of Bāravaí, arrived at the sanctuary Guņasıla-a before the Ascetic Lord Mahavira ( [until] like Master Goyama ) showed (him his food and drink) and took himself the food (as untouched in the mouth) as a serpent ( getting ) in the hole.
Then the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra, some other time, came up to the city of Rayagiha and abode in the country outside. Then that Friar Ajjunaya completed his period of friarhood, exercising himself by that noble, abundent, zealous, lucky mortification full well for six months, wasted himself by a half-month's starvation, cut off thirty meals by
