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salute and bow down to ascetics, who perform body mortification in heat, body mortification under tree and body mortification by sitting under open sky respectively during summer, rainy and winter seasons, observe the vow of silence, does veeraasan, sleep on one side of body, remain in posture of a cock, observe the vow of fasting for a fornight etc. in two and a half island in two oceans and fifteen karma bhoomies. I do so in order to my pains/ sorrow to distrot my pains and karmas, to attain gems-trio, to attain highest grade of life and to die in the state of union with self. May I attain the riches of the attributes of Jina.
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