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8. Svayam-arambha-varjana Pratima-For eight months, he should not do any sinful act
9 Bhritaka-pesya-ārambha-varjana Pratima-Por nine months, he should not have any sinful act done by a servant or a messenger.
10. Uddista-bhakta-varjana Pratimā-Por ten months he should abstain from food and drink materials specially prepared for himself. He should have his head regularly shaved.
II. Śramana-bhūta Pratima-For eleven months he should lead the life of a true ascetic.
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While adopting any pratimā, he should practice of all the previous pratimās.
By the practice of such extensive, noble, and severe auster. ities for five years and a half, the body of Ānanda Śrävaka, became feeble, emaciated, and skeleton-like. Even in such an enfeebled state, Ananda Śrâvaka thought :--" So long as I possess some strength, faith, and courage, it is desirable that I should adopt apaścima māriņāntika samlékhana vrata (The Final Vow of Expiatory Rites to be performed on Death-bed) during the life. time of śramana Bhagavāna Mahāvira, before the expiry of my term of life." He accordingly took the vow.
Even with the abandonment of food-and drink materials, Ananda Śrāvaka was passing his days happily with an equanimity towards the present living condition and approaching death With further purification of his mind, while thus calmly passing his days, and with the destruction and subsidence of his Jrānāvarniya (Knowledge-obscuring ) Karmas, Ananda Srivaka acquired Avadhi Jnâna (Visual Knowledge ) and he was able to see from where he was, an extent of 500 yojanas of Lavana Samudra in the East, the West, and the South, upto the Culla-him avanta Varsadhara in the North; above as far as the Saudharma déva-loka, and below as far as the Loluyaccuya hell of the Rat
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