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Ariştanemi
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every third day, missing in all six meals (between one meal and the other), ... till the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Citra, at which, with a divine robe on, with one thousand men in his train, he tonsured, and having given up the household order, he entered the order of the homeless monks. 173
से अरहा णं अरिट्ठणेमी चउपपण्णं राइंदियाइं णिच्चं वोस-काए चियत्तदेहे-[वासी-चंदण-समाण-कप्पे सम-तिण-मणि-लेठ्ठ-कंचणे सम-दुक्ख-सुहे इहलोग-परलोग-अप्पडिबद्ध जीविय-मरणे णिरवकंखे संसार-पारगामी कम्मसंग-णिग्धायणट्ठाए अब्भूठिए एवं च णं विहरइ । तस्स णं भगवंतस्स] पणपण्णइमस्स राइंदियस्स अंतरा वट्टमाणस्स जे से वासाणं तच्चे मासे पंचमे पक्खे आसोय-बहुले तस्स णं पासोय-बहुलस्स पण्णरसी पक्खेणं दिवससस पच्छिमे भागे उज्जिंत-सेल-सिहरे वेडसपायवस्स अहे अट्ठमेणं भत्तेणं अपाणएणं चित्ताहिं णक्खत्तेणं जोगमुवागएणं झाणं-तरियाए वट्टमाणस्स अणंते अणुत्तरे णिव्वाधाए णिरावरणे कसिणे पडिपुण्णे केवलवर-णाण-दसणे समुप्पण्णे । [तए णं भगवं अरिट्ठणेमी अरहा जाए जिणे केवली सवण्णु सव्वदरिसी सव्व-देव-मणुयासुरस्स लोगस्स परियायं जाणइ पासइ, सव्व-लोए सव्व-जीवाणं आगइं गई थिइंचवणं उववायं तक्कं मणो माणसियं भुत्तं कडं पडिसेवियं प्रावी-कम्मं रहो-कम्मं अरहा अरहस्सभागी तं तं कालं मणवयण-काय-जोगे वट्टमाणाणं] सव्व-लोए सव्व-जीवाणं भावे जाणमाणे पासमाणे विहरइ ।।
१७४
For 54 day-nights, Arhat Aristanemi neglected the care of his body and exposed it to hardship. [Thus he lived, indifferent alike to stool and sandal, to hay, gems, pebbles and . gold, to pleasure and pain, untied by this world and the next, careless of life and death, started to terminate the mundane life, and determined to end the bondage of karma. The said Bhagavān] on the 55th day, in the third month of the rainy season, in the fifth fortnight, on the 15th, the new moon, day of the month of Āśvina, in the later part of the day, atop Mount Ujjinta, at the foot of the betasa (banyan, in some reading) tree, taking food without water once every fourth day, missing in all eight meals (between one meal and the other), at the conjunction of the moon with the asterism Citrā, while in meditation, attained the supreme, kevala knowledge and faith, infinite, unprecedented, unobstructed, complete and full.
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