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Mahavira see me from there. I had taken a vow from Śramaya Bhagavana Mahavira to the effect that I should not kill any living being, and that I should not give pain to any being in any way, till the kind of my life, and I had taken some other vows. Besides, I had taken a vow that I should say out anything in its true state that I knew it. I should not tell a lie, or should I say the reverse of it, as long as I live. I am, now, taking those vows again from Sramana Bhagavana Mahavira and I take a vow to abstain from all kinds of foods, all varieties of drink-materials, from all kinds of fruits, vegetables, sweets, and I take a vow to abstain from all varieties of condiments, savouries etc as long as I am alive. In fact, I take a vow to eschew all the four varieties of food and drink-materials till my death, which must occur at the end of my life in this world. Besides. I shail abandon with the final respiration, this body of mine, which is dear, desirable, lovely, and which body has been carefully preserved against painful accidents. Having thus renounced all food and drinks for about thirty days, and having remained, as steady as a big tree, in religious meditation, Skandaka Aṇagāra died with perfect traमहावीरं वंदइ नर्मसह २ बहुहिं चत्थछहमदसमदुवालसेहिं मासद्यमासखमणेहिं विचितेर्हि तवोकम्मेहिं अप्पाणं भावेमाणे विहरति । वर णं से स्वंदप अणगारे तेणं ओराछेणं विजलेणं पयत्तेणं पगटिपणं कल्लाणे णं सिवेणं घणं मंगल्लेणं सस्सिरीपणं उदग्गेणं उदतेणं उत्तमेणं उदारेण यहाणुमागेण'
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