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35. THE HOUSELESS MONK This chapter contains remarks on the necessity for complete freedom from desire; thus the houseless monk may obtain absolute knowledge and reach final bliss. The illustrations are of the most cliché sort. In HV (fig. 142) Mahāvīra preaches to two monks, in JP (fig. 143) to two laymen; in DV (fig. 141) there are two registers, in each of which two monks sit facing each other and engaged in conversation. JM has no illustration, since that which comes at the head of this chapter (fig. 136) belongs with Chapter 33 (see above).
