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and demerit (sin) do not affect one who is free from likes and dislikes on account of there being knowledge and freedom from obstruction. Nothing is dear or not-dear to him. His is the happiness of the emancipated. What contingency is there here?
(2024) When his doubt was dispelled by the Victor free from old age and death, the Sramaņa became a monk along with his 300 pupils.
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