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Arhat Rşabha
Limitation of space of a village, a town, a forest, a farm, a house or a yard; Limitation of time of a unit called samaya, of one called vāvalikā, one called ānāpānaka ( deep breath / respiration ), one called a stoka, one called a ksana, one called a lava a paksa, a muhūrta, a day - night, a fortnight, a month, a season, a halfyear, a year, or any other time-unit of a still longer duration; Limitation of subjective senses : of anger, pride, attachment, .greed, fear, laughter, affection, hatred, quarrel, calumny, sharp words, meanness, scandal-mongering, pleasure and pain, deceitful falsehood and evil of wrong faith. Arhat Rṣabha had none of these.
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से णं अरहा उसमे वासा - वास- वज्जं प्रट्ठ गिम्ह - हेमंतिए मासे गाने एगराइए णगरे पंच-राइए वासी चंदण - समाण कप्पे सम-तिण-मणि-लेटठुकंचणे समदुक्ख - सुहे इहलोग-परलोग प्रप्पडिबद्धे, जीवियमरणे णिरवकंखे, संसार-पार-गामी कम्म संग - णिग्धायणट्ठाए प्रभुट्ठिए एवं च णं विहरइ ।
Monsoon sojourn apart, Arhat Rṣabha spent eight months of summer and winter as follows: if in a village, one night only .in one village, and five nights if in a town;
With similar feeling towards excreta and sandal wood, with similar attitude to hay, jewel, clay and gold, indifferent to pleasure and pain, free from limitation in this world as well as in the next, without a hankering for life and death, destined to overcome the mundane life, born to terminate the bondage of karma-thus he spent his time.
तस्स णं अरहम्रो उसभस्स प्रणुत्तरेणं णाणेणं प्रणुत्तरेणं दंसणेणं प्रणुत्तरेणं चरित्तेणं प्रणुत्तरेणं आलएणं प्रणुत्तरेणं वीरिएणं प्रणुत्तरेणं प्रज्जवेणं प्रणुत्तरेणं मद्दवेण प्रणुत्तरेणं लाघवेणं प्रणुत्तराए खंतीए प्रणुत्तराए बुद्धीए प्रणुत्तरेण सच्च-संजम-तव- सुचरिय-सोवचिय-फल- परिणिव्वाण - मग्गेणं प्रप्पाणं भावे माणस एक्कं वास - सहस्सं विइक्कतं ।
With supreme knowledge, supreme faith and supreme conduct, in stainless lodgings and blameless wanderings, with extreme valour, extreme uprightness, extreme mildness, extreme dexterity and extreme patience, with utmost caution and utmost
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