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The Eleventh Anga
[ II. Lect. 1.
done so he used to inspect carefully the place for easing nature ( lit. the place for excretion and urination ) and having done so he used to spread a mat of Darbha grass and having done so he used to stand up on it and take a vow of observing the Atthama-bhatta--the three days' fast ( lit. the fast in which eight meals are cut off ) and having done so he used to observe the ‘Posaha? fast coupled with the three days' fast and passed his time in religious vigil. Then while that prince Subāhu was keeping a religious vigil at mid-night hours the following idea occurred to him : "Blessed, in leed, are those villages, towns ( here the rest is to be supplied, down to ) dwelling places which are visited by the Samana, the blessed Mahāvira; blessed, indeed, are those kings, courtiers ( and $0 jorth ) who having submitted themselves to the tonsure (here the rest is to be supplier, down to) accept monkhood in the presence of the Samaņa, the blessed Mahāvīra; blessed, indeed, are those kings, courtiers ( and so forth, down to ) who accept the tu elve-fold religious duty of a house-holder, consisting of the Five Lesser Vows and the Seren Disciplinary Voics; blessed, indeed, are those kings (and so forth, down to) who hear the sermon of the law delivered by the Samana, the blessed Mahāvīra, Therefore, if the Samaņa, the blessed Mahāvīra, comes here and visits this place, while gradually wandering on his religious journeys from town to town, I, having submitted myself to the tonsure shall accept monkhood in the presence of the Venerable Samana.
