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INTRODUCTION.
Achelakka; 2nd, Udesía ; 3rd, Siyyáyara ; 4th, Ráyapitha ; 5th, Kiíkamme; 6th, Vaya; 7th, Jetha ; 8th, Parlikamane ; 9th, Másam; 10th, Pajjosavaña*.
1. What, then, is meant by Achelakka ? He who is without chela, that is to say, clothing, is Achelakka, and the abstract noun formed from that it is Achailakyat (unclothedness). Achailakya is the attribute of Rishabha and Mahávírat alone of all the principal Yatis, they having no other clothing than some covering of old white cloth. Ajita and the rest of the twenty-two Tirthankars being dressed in clothes, valuable and of a variety of colours, though still with holy dispositions, are said to be in the state of Suchelakatwa (wellclothedness). Whether any one else who dresses in coarse white clothes may be considered as in the state of Achailakya is not determined. To those then belongs especially the first Kalpa.
* The original Mágadhi words are as follows :
अचेलक उडे सीअ सिय्यायर रायपिठ किकम्मे वय जेठ पडिकमणे मासं पज्जोमवण कप्पे The Sanskrit equivalents will soon appear in their proper places in the text.
of This is now the Sanskrit form introduced by the author, and continued during the whole paragraph, to the exclusion of the Mágadhi. That is to say, the first and last Tirthankars.
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