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in Jain texts. In its chapter "In Praise of Mahāvīra (Virattjhui)," the old work, Suy(gaḍa) 1.6.28. reads:
se väriya itthi sa rãi bhattam,
uvahāṇavam dukkha kkhay'atth'ayaeram ca, logam vidittā āraṁ pāraṁ ca,
savvaṁ pabhū vāriya savva vāram (ed. by Muni Jambuvijaya)
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He abstained from women and from eating at night, he practised austerities for the removal of pain, he knew this world, and that beyond: the lord renounced everything at every time. (H. Jacobi, SBE 45. p. 291)
The "savva vāram," is explained by some of the commentators as follows: "the Suy.cūrṇi has, srava-vārī sarvavāraṇa-sila ity artha srava-vārī means the practice of warding off everything." This explanation comes close to Buddhaghosa's sabbena papa varanena varita-papo. The Sūy.tīkā (and the dīpik) have: "sarvavāraṁ bahuso nivāita (Skt. sarvavāram, one who has repeatedly warded off). The Nāgarjuniya recension gives no explanation on this problem. It should be noted at this juncture that the Angasuttāṇi edition of Canon I (p. 304) mentions a 16th century manuscript containing the variant, vāre.
2.7 Turning now to the twenty-ninth chapter of a text attributed to sayings of Mahāvīra, the Isibhāsiyāiṁ, stanza 19ab reads:
savvattha virae dante, savva varīhim vārie (ed. W. Schubring)
Schubring has explained this vāri as "absonderung" in the notes to the 1942 edition. He seems to have changed his
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