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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Nirayávaliyao. down to) erected the sacrificial posts. Then having got prepared many copper (and 80 forth, down to ) having entrusted my family to my eldest son, and having taken his permission and having taken many copper (and 80 forth , down to ) I got myself bald-shaved and initiated ( and so forth, down to ) I observe two days' fasts. It is good for me, therefore, now, to take permission to-morrow, when the sun will be shining bright, of many an ascetic, persons who meet and talk with me, former acquaintances and the asceticfriends, to take leave of hundreds of creatures resorting to the hermitage, and then, clad in bark garments, and having taken with me the Kadhiņasankáiya and the pots and other utensils, and having wrapped my mouth by means of a wooden seat, to start in the northern direction for commencing the great journey of l'enunciation towards the north": he thought so and having done so, the next day when the sun was shining brightly, he took permission of many an ascetic, persons who met and talked with him, former acquaintances (and so forth as above, down to ) wrapped his mouth by means of a wooden seat and took the following vow : “ Wherever I shall stumble or fall in water, land, fortress
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