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LIFE OF MAHÁVÍRA.
ill-flavoured wood and of sandal-wood the same; looking on grass and pearls, gold and a clod of earth, pleasure and pain as all alike, bound neither to this world nor to the world to come, desiring neither life nor death, wholly superior to worldly attachments, setting himself to slay the enemy, Works. Thus did he labour for twelve years in the road that leads to absolute repose (Nirvana), to attain perfect wisdom and perception, religious practice, abstraction from the love of home and country, power, indifference to every object, readiness to obey, patience, freedom from desire, selfrestraint, joy, truth, mercy and perfection in austerity. In the second half of the thirteenth year, when half a month had elapsed in the summer season, in the second month of summer, the month Vaisákha, in the fourth demilunation, the tenth day after the full moon, when the shadow was going eastward, and one watch remained on the day called Savita, and the Muhurta called Vijaya, at the town of Trímbhikagráma, outside the town, at a river called Rituválika, at a moderate distance from a Yaksas temple, called Vairyavartta, in the field of a husbandman named Sáma, under a Sálatree, sitting in a crouching posture as one does in milking a cow, while inflaming his mind with devotion on the heated earth, and after the fast of six meals without the use of water, under the constellation Uttara Phálguni, at the time of a fortunate
