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The 5th year of mendicancy
After completing the monsoon stay at P hacamp , the Lord arrived at Kayamgal. There, at a temple of a heretic named 'Daridrathera', he stood meditating in k yotsarga posture. Leaving Kayamgal , he arrived at S vatth , and stood in meditation outside the city. It was biting cold in winter. Yet, not caring about the cold, the Lord remained in meditation through the night. Go laka could not bear the cold and kept shivering through the night. There at a temple festival men and women kept dancing through the night. Go laka made fun – “what kind of religion is this, where men and women shamelessly dance together?” People threw him out. Seeing him shiver in cold outside they invited him inside again thinking of him Lord' disciple and turned the volume of their music louder so that they do not hear his utterances. He was thus, thrown out and taken in the congregation many times. In the morning, Mah v ra left for r vast. There, based on a soothsayer's advice, a laywoman, for protection of her son, cooked rice pudding for a month during her pregnancy and with the intention of giving it to an ascetic, gave it to Go laka. Despite Siddh rtha Deva's warning to be careful, Go laka ate that pudding. However, after this incident, he became a total fatalist.
After leaving r vast , the Lord arrived at 'Haleduga'. He stayed a night there. Other travelers too were staying there that night. To protect themselves from the cold they lit a fire and left without putting it off in the morning. Mah v ra burnt his feet because of dry grass catching fire. In the afternoon after completing his meditation, the Lord moved ahead and reached varta via N mgal. There he became meditative at the temple of Baladeva. Go laka used to tease and taunt people and fall into all kinds of trouble. After leaving varta, passing through many places, he reached the vicinity of Caur ka habitat. There Go laka got beaten up on account of his misdeeds. Angrily he said – “People have troubled me needlessly; with the purity of my teacher's penance, may the sacrificial hall get burnt." By coincidence, the hall caught fire.
After moving ahead, they reached ‘Kalambuk ’, where the rulers of the mountainous region were two brothers, Megha and Klahast. Incidentally, K lahast met Mah v ra. He asked him, “Who are you?” When the Lord said nothing, K lahast beat him up, yet he kept quiet. K lahast sent him to Megha; Megha had seen him earlier at Kuņdagr ma. Hence, he recognised him and sought forgiveness for his
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