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The Eleventh Anga [ I. Lect. 1.. There having completed his boyhood and having attained to youth and having beard religion from worthy elderly monks, he will get his head bald-shaved and thus will accept monkhood (lit. a houseless state) giving up householdership (lit. the state of having a house). There he will be a houseless monk protected by careful movement (here the remaining epithets to be supplied down to ) and observing perfect celibacy. There having observed asceticism for many years and having confessed and expiated for his sins and getting perfect peace of mind he will die at the time of death and haviag done so he will be born. as a god in the Sohamma heaven. Having dropped down from there he will be born in the families in the country of Mahāvideha and will learn. eighteen arts like Dadhapainna (here the same arts to be reproduced down to ) will be emancipated.. Truly, Jambû ! this was taught by the Samana, the blessed Mahāvîra (here all his epithets are to be enumerated down to) who has obtained emancipation, as the purport of the first lecture of the first book called “ The fruits of bad acts.”
End of the First Lecture of the First Book. of the Seventh Anga called
Vivāgasuyam.
