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garland-maker Ajjunaya moves about killing [etc.]; go, you, not, son, to worship the Ascetic Lord Mahavsra, lest a calamity befall your body. You may praise and worship the Ascetic, Lord Mahavira keeping yourself here."
Then the merchant Sudmsana said thus to his father and mother “ How can I, keeping myself here praise the Ascetic Lord Mahāvīra who is come here, arrived here, making a visit here ?" I, father and mother, on being permitted by you, go to praise Lord Mahāvīra."
Now when his parents could not prevail upon the merchant Sudamsana by many declarations [4] [until] to think over, they thus said " If it please you, Beloved of Gods, do not stop."
Then the merchant Sudamsana, on being permitted by his father and mother bathed, purified himself, (put on) dresses [until] on the body and went out of his own house on foot. Then he passed through the city of Rāyagiha and resolved to go to the sanctuary of Gunasîla-a, not very far from the shrine of Jakkha. Then that Jakkha.
