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palanquin to stop, descended from it, took off his ornaments, garlands and finery with his own hands and plucked out his hair in five handfuls.
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"When the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Viṣākhā, after fasting three and a half days without drinking water, put on a divine robe, and together with three hundred men he entered the state of houselessness.
"The Arhat Pārśva, the people's favourite, for eighty-three days neglected his body and abandoned the care of it. With equanimity he bore, underwent, and suffered all pleasant or unpleasant occurrences arising from divine powers, men or animals. He was circumspect in his walking, begging, thoughts, words, acts guarding his senses, his chastity; without wrath, pride, deceit, greed, calm, tranquil, composed, liberated, free from temptations, without egoism, property; he had cut off all earthly ties and was not stained by any worldliness...
"Except in the rainy season, the Venerable One lived in villages only a single night, in towns only five nights indifferent alike to all...desiring neither life nor death, he exerted himself to the suppression of the defilement of "karma"; the Venerable One meditated on himself for eighty-three days. The eighty-fourth, it was in the first month of summer, in the first fortnight, the dark fortnight of Caitra (March/April), on its fourth day, in the early part of the day, when the moon was in conjunction with Viṣākhā, under a "dhātaki” tree, after fasting two and a half days without drinking water, being engaged in a deep meditation, he reached the infinite, supreme, unobstructed, unimpeded, complete and highest knowledge and intuition, called "kevala". (Then, follows a long development on Pārsva as "kevalin").
"The Arhat Pārsva, the people's favourite, had eight "gaṇa" and eight "Ganadhara" (of which the names are mentioned).
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