Jain Journal 1973 01

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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food-drink-dainties
-For life, I give up the four intakes of delicacies.
-I dedicate this, my physical body, so dear, coveted, and object of love, which did I preserve against all ailments, to final respirations, inhales and exhales.
-May I court the vow of eradicating passions and cutting the bondage of karma, of giving up the intake of food, drink, etc., and of staying, without hankering for death, fixed in pādapopagamana end.
After this, monk Skandaka, who had read the eleven Angas under senior monks who were almost equal to Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira himself, who had spent twelve years without break in the Sramana order, passed away while in a trance, after having enriched his soul by a monthlong fast, missing in all sixty-meals, after having discussed (lapses and sacred things) and after having said the pratikramaņa. When the monks (attending on him) realised that monk Skandaka had passed away, they themselves performed the kāyotsarga meditation to celebrate the great occasion. Then having picked up his robes and vessels, they slowly came down Mount Vipula, and reached the place where was Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira, paid homage and obeisance unto him, and having paid homage and obeisance, they made the following submission :
--(Bhante)! Thy disciple, Skandaka by name, a monk, beloved of the gods, was gentle by nature, polite by nature, quiet by nature, with little pride-anger-attachment-greed, full of softness and humility, always living in the protection of his Master, gentle and polite. Being permitted by thee, (the said monk), the beloved of the gods, who had planted on self by self the five Great Vows, who had forgiven and begged to be forgiven, went with us atop Mount Vipula, ... till has passed asway by fasting. Here are his earthly) belongings.
(At this point), Bhagavan Gautama paid his homage and obeisance to Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira, and having done so, he made the following submission :
-Bhante ! Thy disciple, monk, Skandaka by name, the beloved of the gods, who has passed away on the completion of his time here (on this earth) whither is he gone, and where is he born ?
Addressing Gautama and others, Sramana Bhagavan Mahavira ordained :