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these terms: "We are all practising self-restraint according to the Instruction of the Tirthankara."
This, in fact, comprises the observance of "samatva" (practising equanimity).
सरीरलाघवधुत-पदं
६६. एवं तेसि महावीराणं चिरराई पुव्वाई वासाणि रीयमाणाणं
दवियाणं पास अहियासियं ।
Sariralaghavadhuta-padaṁ.
66. Evam tesim mahaviraṇam ciraraim puvvaim vāsāņi riyamāṇāṇaṁ daviyāņam pāsa ahiyāsiyaṁ.
The Dhuta of Attenuation of the Body
66. See! How all these brave and self-disciplined munis endured various hardships, having been initiated into asceticism during the prime of their life and how they adhered all their life to self-restraint.
६७. आगयपण्णाणाणं किसा बाहा भवंति, पयणुए य मससोणिए ।
67.
67.
ĀYĀRO
Agayapanṇānāṇam kisā bāhā bhavamti, payaṇue ya mamsasopie.
The muni who most painstakingly acquires profound Scriptural Knowledge, (attenuates his body to such an extent that) his arms become lean, with very little flesh and blood on his body.
ANNOTATION 67. During the period of scriptural studies, a muni undertakes fasting, dieting or eating non-fat-producing food. This leads to emaciation of his body indicated by his lean and thin arms. On account of eating little or decalorised food, little nourishment is produced in the body, which in its turn is responsible for under-production of flesh and blood. Consequently, the body gets emaciated. Also, because of constant preoccupation with hard studies, the body loses weight. Thus austerities both external and internal-cause attenuation of the body.
The author of the curni has pointed out that all the above
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