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a month wore clothes ; after that tirne he walked about naked, and accepted the alms in the hollow of his hand. For more than twelve years the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira neglected his body and abandoned the care of it; he with equanimity bore, underwent, and suffered all pleasant or unpleasant occurrences arising from divine powers, men, or animals. (117)
Henceforth the Venerable Ascetic Mahâvîra was houseless, circumspect? in his walking, circumspect in his speaking, circumspect in his begging, circumspect in his accepting (anything), in the carrying of his outfit and drinking vessel; circumspect in evacuating excrements, urine, saliva, mucus, and uncleanliness of the body; circumspect in his thoughts, circumspect in his words, circumspect in his acts 3 ; guarding his thoughts, guarding his words, guarding his acts, guarding his senses, guarding his chastity; without wrath, without pride, without deceit, without greed ; calm, tranquil, composed, liberated, free from temptations“, without egoism, without property; he had cut off all earthly ties, and was not stained by any worldliness: as water does not adhere to a copper vessel, or collyrium to mother of pearl (so sins found no place in him); his course was unobstructed like that of Life; like the firmament he wanted no support; like the wind he knew no obstacles ; his heart was pure like the water (of rivers or tanks) in autumn; nothing could soil him like the leaf of
· Cf. Äkârânga Sätra II, 15, $ 23.
* Circumspect is samita, guarding gupta; the former relates to execution of good acts, the latter to the abstinence from bad ones.
* This is the triad manas mind, vâk speech, kâya body.
• Åsrava.
