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ADVANCED ASCETICISM (DHUTA)
३६. जयमाणे एत्थ विरते अणगारे सव्वओ मुंडे रीयंते ।
39.
Jayamāņe riyamte.
39.
ettha virate aṇagāre Savvao mumde
Being self-disciplined, he abstains from worldly desires, renounces the household life and becomes completely shorn1 of (all his evils) and has no fixed
abode.
४०. जे अचेले परिवुसिए संचिक्खति ओमोयरियाए ।
40.
Je acele parivusie samcikk hati omoyariyae.
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40. A muni, who remains naked, practises (the penance called) avama udarya (i. e. attenuation).
ANNOTATION 40. The terms avamaudarya means attenuation. It is of two kinds:
(a) Physical- Attenuation of food and clothing. (b) Psychical- Attenuation of passions like anger, etc.
Possession of clothes may provoke anger. The practice of nudism amounts to the practice of the penance of attenuation of passions.
1. The Sthananga Sutra enumerates ten kinds of munda, literally one who has his head shaved and figuratively one who has stripped off all his evils).
1. Stripped off Anger. 2. Stripped off Conceit.
3. Stripped off Deceit.
4. Stripped off Avarice.
5. Shaven headed by plucking out hair.
6. Free from the passion relating to the sense of audition.
7. Free from the passion relating to the sense of vision. 8. Free from the passion relating to the sense of odour. 9. Free from the passion relating to the sense of taste. 10. Free from the passion relating to the sense of touch.
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