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ABDHA-MAGADAI BEADER and preceptor. Already in the presence of Ambađa, he Ascetic, we have renounced for all our life gross in. jury to living beings, false speech and taking of things not given, all sexual intercourse, gross possession of goods. Now in the presence of the ascetic Lord Mahávíra we renounce for all our life all injury to living beings down to all possession of goods, all wrath, pride, deceit, avarice, flattery, hatred, quarrel, slander, talebearing, accusing others, displeasure and pleasure, sting of false vision and every unworthy act.
We renounce for all our life the four kinds of food, drink, sweets and dainties. Even this body of ours which was agreeable, lovely, dear, handsome, acceptable, strong, trustworthy, esteemed, honoured, approved, and like to a casket of treasures, and of which we took care that cold, heat, hunger, thirst, snakes, thieves, gnats; mosquitoes, various kinds of diseases and sicknesses arising from defects of wind, gall, or the combined humour, and sufferings and vexations may not affect it, we do till our last breath surrender. So they waited in the páovagamaņa posture without eagerness for death, wasting themselves in starvation by renouncing food and drink,
19. Then those ascetics missed many meals by fasting, made confession and retraction, feil into a trance, and in due Course coming to their death, were reborn as gods in the Bambhaloya region. There is their course, and their stay there has been declared as ten Ságarovama. They were the true wor. shippers for the Future. (Ovaváiya Sutta $ 39).
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