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Having conquered the senses that nourish the body, destroyed the army of intoxication and darkness, escaped the bonds of domestic life, sustained the disintegrating mind, ended enmity along with greed and delusion, those great warriors who had taken vows with women, being enslaved by objects of sense, considering them like their own mothers and sisters, tormented by thirst and hunger, abandoning doubt, understanding the teachings themselves, with scriptures as their words, terrified by fierce tigers, lions, and sharabhas, unable to bear the ordeal for a few days, took Jain initiation, observing a strict fast for six months, with steadfastness and gravity like Mount Meru, quickly became corrupt. Those with great dull minds, who did not study the scriptures, and whose bodies were obstructed by labor, with an interval of a cushion between their two feet, closing their mouths with a flawless lip-seal, began to speak in a manner. "No bath, no flowers, no adornment, and no fragrance, the Lord does not take water, nor a morsel of food.
With eyes resting on the nose, devoid of eyebrow movements and glances, those great ones are not conquered by even the cold and hot winds of the Nagendras, Vidyadharas, and Narendras, nor are they fatigued by sleep, hunger, and thirst. Worshipped by the world, free from conflict, with long arms devoid of laziness, those supreme Jina-kings, praised by the gods, do not speak to any attendant, nor do they look at any servant, with their hands raised above, they were thus.
They remain eternally established. I do not know what they think in their minds? I have been entrusted with an extremely difficult task, in the splendor of their body, which was like a mountain of gold, those destroyers of sin, the world-teachers. Thus they were situated, as if they were the path to ascend to heaven and liberation. ||1||
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