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आदि धर्मक्रियाओं में कुशल व समर्थ) तथारूप स्थविर साधुओं के साथ विपुलगिरि पर शनैः-शनैः 5 चढ़कर, मेघसमूह के समान काले, देवों के अवतरणस्थानरूप पृथ्वीशिलापट्ट की प्रतिलेखना करके, उस पर डाभ (दर्भ) का संथारा (संस्तारक) बिछाकर, उस दर्भ संस्तारक पर बैठकर आत्मा को संलेखना तप द्वारा कर्मों को नष्ट करके, आहार- पानी का सर्वथा त्याग ( प्रत्याख्यान) करके पादपोपगमन संथारा 5 करके, मृत्यु की आकांक्षा न करता हुआ विचरण करूँ ।
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इस प्रकार का विचार किया और रात्रि व्यतीत होने पर प्रातःकाल यावत् जाज्वल्यमान सूर्य के 5 उदय होने पर स्कन्दक अनगार श्रमण भगवान महावीर स्वामी की सेवा में आकर उन्हें वन्दनानमस्कार करके यावत् पर्युपासना करने लगे।
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48. Then one night, around last quarter, while doing religious studies ascetic Skandak had an inspiration (adhyavasaya), thought (chintan)... and so on up to... resolve (sankalp) that as a consequence of the said austerities that were free of expectations (udaar)... and so on up to... severe; I have become dehydrated... and so on up to... It is through shear will power that I move and stand. So much so that after speaking, or while speaking or even the thought of speaking exhausts me... and so on up to... When I walk or remain standing my bones rattle just like aforesaid carts. Therefore, as long as I am endowed with capacity to rise 47 (utthaan) and act (karma), with strength (bal), potency (virya), and with the will of self-exertion (purushakar-parakram); as long as my spiritual teacher and guide Tirthankar Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir moves about like a king elephant; it would be good for me that tomorrow; when the night ends and the dawn breaks, when the blue and other lotuses bloom beautifully, when the sun rises with its crimson glow like Ashoka and Palash flowers, a parrot's beak, and red-half of Gunja seed, causing the multitude of lotuses to blossom and attains brilliance with its thousand I should pay homage and obeisance... and so on up to... worship Shraman Bhagavan Mahavir. After that I should seek permission from Bhagavan Mahavir, embrace the five great vows on my own, seek pardon from male and female ascetics (Shraman and Shramani), and slowly ascend Vipula mountain in the company of tatharupa (conforming to Agams) accomplished (in various ascetic rituals and codes) senior ascetics (sthavirs). After that I should seek, inspect and clean a cloudlike black rock suited for descent of gods and make a bed of hay (darbh). I should then destroy all the karmas through the ultimate vow (Samlekhana), give up all food intake, recline on the said bed, take the
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