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While practising this tapa, Skandaka Aṇagâra pose himself to the rays of the Sun, in an utkața asana (a posture of sitting on both the legs without the hips touching the seat), and at night, he was without clothes in a vîrāsana ja pesture assumed by a person sitting on a small chair with his feet touching the ground, and retaining that posture even when the chair is removed, and supporting the whole burden of his body on his feet).
जेणेव समणे भगवं महावीरे लेणेव उवागच्छति २ समणं मगव महावीरं. जाव नमसित्ता एवं बदासी - इच्छामि णं भंते ! तुन्भेहिं अब्भणुष्णाए समाणे गुणरयणसंवच्छरं तवोकम्मं उवसंपज्जिता णं विहरित्तए, अहामुह देवाणुप्पिा ! मा परिबंधं । तए ण से खंदए अणगारे समणे णं भगवया महावीरे णं अण्णाए समाणे जाव नमसिता गुणरयणसंवच्छरं तवोकम्म उवसंपजिया णं विहरति, तं जहा - पदमं मासं चउत्थाच उत्थण अनिक्खिणं
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