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SĀRĀVALĪ PRAKIRNAKA: 23
72.
One who climbs the “atrunjaya hill on the eighth, the fourteenth of both the lunar fortnights as well as on the full moon day, becomes liberated within a few rebirths.
73.
One who remembers the Pundarīka hill while observing Navakarisi, Paurisī, pārvārdha, Ekāsana and Ayambila vows, gains the fruit of observing a three-day long fast.
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One who remembers the Śatruñjaya tirtha while observing fasts of two days, three days, four days, five days, half a month and a month's duration, attains purity of the body, mind and speech and gains liberation.
ORDINATION, ENLIGHTENMENT AND LIBERATION OF
ST. NĀRADA ETC.
75.
On hearing that millions of monks have attained right insight and righteousness by climbing on this hill, St, Nārada started thinking thus -
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“A wicked person like me, who sleeps on the ground, wears the tree-bark (Valkala), eats roots (Mūla), fruits (Phala) and vegetables (sāka), whose head is constantly eaten by lice harbouring in the matted hair (Jatā)
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- and who wanders about aimlessly and who keeps thinking about others' flaws, is not even fit to earn the compassion (Anukampa) of the world.”
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