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§ 94. ] Nirayávaliyão.
75 turnips, bark, leaves, flowers and fruits, those who render their bodies hard on account of daily baths : in waters, and those who make their bodies as if roasted on charcoal or cowdung fire by means of seating themselves in the midst of burning fires: and having got myself initiated at their hands by the vow of sprinkling water on the ground to purify it, I shall take the following vow: It is proper for me to practise, uninterrupted upto the end of my life, two days' fasts ( in which six meals are cut off ), and to mortify myself by practising Disãchakkavãla penance holding my hands up on the heated ground with my face turned towards the sun"; and having thought so the next day when the sun was shining brightly he got prepared many copper (and so forth as above, down to ) got himself initiated in the vow of the ascetics who sprinkle water on the ground to purify it, and having got himself initiated he took the above-mentioned vow, he observed the first two day's fast and whiled away his time.
95. Then that ascetic, the Brahmin Somila, at the time of breaking the first two day's fast, ascended the heated ground and having done so, he, clad in bark garments,
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