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JAIN JOURNAL
When he who is free from desires approached the village, the inhabitants met him on the outside, and attacked him, saying, 'Get away from here'.
He was struck with a stick, the fist, a lance, hit with a fruit, a clod, a potsherd. Beating him again and again, many cried.
When he once (sat) without moving his body, they cut his flesh, tore his hair under pains or covered him with dust.
Throwing him up, they let him fall, or disturbed him in his religious postures ; abondoning, the care of his body, the Venerable One humbled himself and bore pain, free from desire.
As a hero at the head of the battle is surrounded on all sides, so was there Mahavira. Bearing all hardships, the Venerable One, undisturbed, proceeded (on the road to nirvāna).
Translated by HERMANN JACOBI
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