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scriptures, enquiring from wise persons. His veins and bones were engrossed with the religious affection of omniscient's preachings. He had unbreakable love toward preachings of tirthamkara. He had such faith that the preachings of Arihanta are true, ultimate truth, out-topping and all others are without base (untrue). On account of his generosity the door-bolt of his house remained always high meaning his door always remained open for all. Whenever he entered any body's house and even in his seraglio, he generated love and trust in him. He observed householder's five small vows, virtuous vows and disinclination to attachment, refutation (pratyākhyāna), pausadha, fast penance etc., and full pausadha on the eighth, fourteenth, and fifteenth days of the lunar month. He earned advantage by giving faultless food, water, eatables, tasty things, cloths, utensils, blanket, duster (rujoharana), pitha, phalaka, bed, sain sataraka, medicine etc., to sages. He used to purify his soul by practising the accepted penanaces etc.
Life of Sudarsan was opulent with these ideal virtues of a religious householder.
सूत्र १२ :
तए णं तस्स सुदंसणस्स बहुजणस्स अंतिए एयमटुं सोच्चा णिसम्म अयं अज्झत्थिए जाव समुप्पण्णे । एवं खलु समणे भगवं महावीरे जाव विहरइ । तं गच्छामि णं समणं भगवं महावीरं वंदामि, णमंसामि । एवं संपेहेइ संपेहित्ता जेणेव अम्मापियरो तेणेव उवागच्छइ, उवागच्छित्ता करयलपरिग्गहियं जाव एवं वयासी-एवं खलु अम्मयाओ ! समणे भगवं महावीरे जाव विहरइ । तं गच्छामि णं समणं भगवं महावीरं वदामि णमंसामि जाव पज्जुवासामि । तए णं तं सुदंसणं सेटिं अम्मापियरो एवं वयासी-एवं खलु पुत्ता ! अज्जुणए मालागारे जाव घाएमाणे विहरइ, तं मा णं तुमं पुत्ता ! समणं भगवं महावीरं वंदए णिगच्छाहि, माणं तव सरीरयस्स वायत्ती भविस्सइ। तुमं णं इहगए चेव समणं भगवं महावीरं वंदाहि णमसाहि ।
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