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preached by you. I intend to accept consecration at your lotus feet so that I can be free from the sins done by me. Prabhu said-Do, as you feel happy. Do not delay. Then Arjuna garland-maker went to north-east direction, tonsured his hairs by his own five fists and became homeless mendicant. Now garland-maker Arjuna became Arjuna monk. He began to practise restrain and austerity. Thereafter the day on which Arjuna monk accepted consecration with shaven head, he went to Sramana Bhagawāna Mahāvīra, bowed down and worshipped him and then accepted firm resolution of the sort-I will practise two days' fast penance (and third day to take meal) constantly till life. Accepting such firm resolution Arjuna monk began to
'wander in Rajagrha city. सूत्र १९:
तए णं से अज्जुणए अणगारे छट्ठक्खमणपारणयंसि पढमपोरिसीए सज्झायं करेइ, जहा गोयमसामी जाव अडइ । तए णं तं अज्जुणयं अणगारं रायगिहे णयरे उच्च-णीय जाव अडमाणं बहवे इत्थियाओ य पुरिसा य डहरा य महल्ला य जुवाणा य एवं वयासी"इमेणं मे पिया मारिए, इमेणं मे माया मारिया, भाया, भगिणी, भज्जा, पुत्ते, धूया, सुण्हा मारिया, इमेणं मे अण्णयरे सयण-संबंधि-परियण मारिए" त्ति कटु अप्पेगइया अक्कोसंति अप्पेगइया हीलंति, जिंदंति,
खिंसंति, गरिहंति, तज्जेंति, तालेंति । परीषह सहन : मोक्ष गमन सूत्र १९:
इसके पश्चात् अर्जुन अणगार बेले की तपस्या के पारणे के दिन प्रथम
प्रहर में स्वाध्याय करते हुए यावत् (इनकी चर्या गौतम स्वामी की तरह .२००.
अन्तकृद्दशा सूत्र : षष्ठम वर्ग
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