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Mahavira's Words by Walther Schubring
40, 15 there, fed just there, and wounded [him]. 4. A year and a month long [it was] that the Lord did not take off the garment; then [however] he [was] clotheless, a patient sufferer, after he, houseless, discarded the garment. 5. Then, fixing his sight onto a wall the height of a man and extending sidewards [around him], he meditates in deep thought within [it,
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20 the wall]; thereafter, shocked by the sight, many [people] screamed: "Look there!" 6. Where the sexes sleep together, there he is not interested in women; [in other words:] he did not care for sexual enjoyment, [and] so he meditates in deep thought after he looked for a resting place. 7. With those who cannot separate themselves from their houses he does not associate anymore and meditates in deep thought; and if they question him then he does not answer, he goes on upright and takes no notice." 8. This is not easy for some [people]: he does not answer those who greet him [in a particular way]:
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25 [namely] after he has been beaten with sticks, hit badly by the wicked ones. 26 9. Disregarding the abusive language which is difficult to bear, as a wise one [silently] 28 striving forwards, the Naya(-son) looked without concern [at the people] who were occa27 sionally absorbed in conversation; 10. the Naya-son goes to lectures, dance and song, 29 to club and fist fights, these lower entertainments, not [however] in order to attach his mind to them. 11. For over two years [already] he had not enjoyed cold [i.e., fresh] water [anymore] when he moved out into homelessness; after he had entered into solitude, had concealed his appearance [and] had gained" perception, 12. had become com
pletely clear about the earth, the [individual] particles of water, of fire and the air, of mil41,5 dew, seeds and sprouts, and the entirety of [animals] roaming from place to place, 13. he checked, and as soon as he had recognized that they contained life" he wandered around avoiding them, because he so judged, the great hero: 14. "through [the fruit of] deed[s]
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On adu here see Bollée 1988, p. 48.
95 Instead of "and if", etc., the Nagarjuniya have: "confronted with the question or not [i.e., probably: whether he wants to participate in their activity,] the Lord does not allow (anything) evil."
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In line 40, 28 read: Nãe visoě addakkhū gaḍhie mihum (one mora is missing) -kahāsu samayammi. (See Appendix 4 on the sequence of stanzas 8-10 here.)
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Cf. 41, 19 below (WB).
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In line 41, 2 sante, without a full stop.
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cittamantaim belongs to paḍilehe (= "lehai, as often in this story) as well as to abhinnāya.
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