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SECTION III
तइओ उद्देसो
Taio Uddeso
पव्वज्जा-पदं ३०. मज्झिमेणं वयसा एगे, संबुज्झमाणा समुट्ठिता। Pavvajjā-padań
30. Majjhimenam tapasă ege. sambujhamãnã sa mutthita. Initiation into Ascetic Life
30.
Some persons achieve enlightenment in the middle age and get initiated into ascetic life.
ANNOTATION 30. Initiation could take place at an early age or in old age. But mostly it used to take place in the middle age. Most of the romantic indulgence in the pleasures of sex is over by this time. Therefore, a middle aged initiate can stick to ascetic life happily. He becomes wiser also. That is why middle age has been mentioned here. Most of the Ganadharas were initiated in their middle age. Even Bhagavān Mahāvira embraced renunciation after crossing the early stage of his life.
३१. सोच्चा वई मेहावी पंडियाणं निसामिया।
समियाए धम्मे, आरिएहिं पवेदिते। 31. Soccă vai mehāvi paṁdiyānam nisāmiyā.
Samiyāe dhamme, āriehin pavodite. "The religion expounded by the Tërthańkaras have asserted that dhar mæ (i. e. righteousness) subsists in equanimity." – Having heard this told by the pre
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