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of his teacher suppress all emotions of fear or joy and wait for the dissolution of his body.
32. When the time for quitting the body has come, a sage dies the death with one's will,' accord. ing to one of the three methods.!
(Uttarajjhayana Chap. V.)
1. These three methods are (1) 195 , (2) TATE (3) OITUTETTU i. e (1) Suicide by rejecting food and drink. the restrictions of the motions of the candidate for suicide to a limited space, (3) remaining motionless like a felled tree. They are fullydescribed in the Acáranga Sútra, Vol. I shap. 7. See S. B. S. Vol. XXII, p. 75 f.
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