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Vivāgasuyam. Then the Samana, the blesse. Mahāvīra, having known this desire of the prince Subāhu, while wanciering on his religious journeys from place to place, came to where the city of Hatthināura was, to where the park Pupphaga was and to where the temple of the demigod Karuvanamālapiya was, and having done so, he, having accepted an acceptable place for residence, passed his time in practising asceticism and penance. The assembly of persons and the king went out to hear him.
Then that prince Subāhu also went out to hear him sitting in it chariot and with great prosperity (exactly as namāli in the Bhagavati Sutra). The Saman; expoundel the Law. The assembly of persons and the king returnel. Then that prince (Subāhu, having heard and listened to the religious serri on of the Samana, the blessed Malāvira, and being greatly delighted and pleased, asked the permission of his parents exactly as in the case of Mehakurnare in the Bhagavatî Sútra. Then he took his renunciation-bath ( exactly (as in the case o Mehakuara, down to ) he became a houseless monk, who observed the rule of careful moving (4), ihe three guptis ( and si forth, down to ) and who was a celibate-Bhambhayāri (Sk. Brahmachāri ). Then that houseless monk Subāhu studied from the worthy elderly monks of the Samana, the blessed Mahāvira, the eleven Angas such as the Sāmāiya * --i.e. the Ãchārānga
* Simãiya ( Sk. Sāmīyika ) is another name of the first Anga, the Achārănga Sútra.
