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DEATH FOOLISH AND WISE.
1.15 the Posaha fast' in both fortnights, not even for a single night,
24. When under such discipline he lives piously even as a householder, he will on quitting flesh and bones2, share the world of the Yakshas.
25. Now a restrained monk will become one of the two : either one free from all misery or it god of great power.
26-28. To the highest regions, in due order, to those where there is no delusion, and to those which are full of light, where the glorious gods dwell who have long life, great power, great lustre, who can change their shape at will, who are beautiful as on their first day, and have the brilliancy of inany suns-- to such go those who are trained in self-control and penance, monks or householders, who have obtained liberation by absence of passion.
29. Having heard this from the venerable men who control themselves and subdue their senses, the virtuous and the learned do not trein ble in the hour of death.
30. A wise man having weighed both kinds of death and chosen the better one taught in the Law of Compassion, will become calm through patience, with an undisturbed mind at the time of death.
31. When the right time to prepare for death has arrived, a faithful monk should in the presence
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1. Posaha of the Jains corresponds to Uporatha of the Buddhists. See n. p. 2. Literally, skin and joints.
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