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CHAPTER VI. WHY JAINISM AND BUDDHISM ARE THE SAME ?
Goutama Buddha left home in his age of twentynine. He devoted six years in practising many kinds of austerities. At his age of thirty-five he decided his path and preached his first sermon at Benares. During these intervening six years, he followed a conduct resembling that of Digamber (naked) Jain Saint also. Lord Buddha has. himself described it. Vide-Majjhim Nikaya mahâ siha náda sutta twelfth. In this sûtra Goutain Buddha in his old age describes the events of his life to his disciple Sariputra. The pali words are :
अचेलको होमि....हत्थापलेखनो....नाभिहतं न उद्दिस्स कतं न निमंतणं सादियामि ; सो न कुंभीमुखा वटिगण्हामि न कलोपियुखापटिगण्हामि, न एलकमंतरं न दंडमंतरं न मुसलमंतरं, न द्विन्नं भुंजमानानां न गम्भनिया, न पायमानया, न पुरिसंतरगताय, न संकित्तिसु, न पथ सा उपट्टितोहोति, न पथ मक्खिका संड संडचारिनी, न मच्छं न मांसं न सुरं न मेरयं न थुसोदकंपिवामि, सो एकागारिको वाहोमि, उकालोपिका, द्वागारिको होमि, द्वालोपिको सत्तागारिको वा होमि सत्तालोपिको ....एकाहं प आहारं आहारेमि, द्वीहिकंपि आहारं आहारेमि.... सत्ताहिकंपि आहारं आहारेमि-इति एयरूपं अ(मासिकंपि परियाय तत्त भोजनानुयोगं अनुयुत्तो विहोरामि...केस्स गस्सु
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