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The eleventh Anga
[ 1. Lect. 7.
the sores which were oozing out pus and blood, from whose ears and nose water was oozing out, who was every moment vomitting out morsels of pus, blood and worms, who was producing harsh and piteous unpleasant voice, whose path was difficult to be approached on account of a collection of swarms of flies, whose head was greatly full of sores, who had put on patched rags, who had in his hand a broken earthen cup-'mallaga' and a broken earthen pot, and who was making his livelihood by begging (lit. by saying 'give me food') at every house. Then reverend Goyama wandered for alms in high as well as low families and accepted enough of it and went out of the city of Pädalasanda and went to where the blessed Samana, Mahavira, was, showed him the alms and showed it to him again and again and being permitted by the Samana (here the rest to be supplied, down to ) he took food without any attachment or liking for that food, but simply to keep himself alive, as a snake takes to the hole (or, he took his fooit as if without allowing the food to touch the cavity oj his mouth, showing apathy to taste, just as a snake enters into its hole without touching the side of the hole ), and passed his time by making himself engrossed in self-control and penance.
Then reverend Goyama on a second occasion at the time of breaking the two days' fast (lit. the fast in which six meals are cut off ) in the
