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tam jahā:-divvă vā, māņusā vā, tirikkhajoniyā vă, anulomā vā, padilomā vå, té uppanné sammam sakai, khamai, titikkhai, ahiyáséi. 118
118 For more than twelve years (after diksā ) śramana Bhagavăn Mabāvira daily neglected his body (in kāgotsarga ) and abandoned the care of his body (by suffering hardships ). He bore, patiunty endured, tolerated (without humiliation ), and stead-fastly experienced with equacimity, all agreeable or disa. greeable occrrences arising from divine powers, buman beings, or lower animals. 118.
The unpleasant bardsbip created by Sulapāņi yakşa ( a demi-god ) occurred thus:
FIRST RAINY SEASON Having reached fyra ATA Asthika-grāma, śramapa Bhagavão Mahāvira remained there during the first, agafa cãtur māsa, Four months of the Rainy Season.
ASTHIKA-GRAMA The former name of Asthika-grāma was Vardbamāna-pura. Now listen bow its former nanie came to be so changed:
There was a very rich merchant namid ga Dhana, possessing immense wealth at Kaušāmbi. He had a son named the Dhans-déva, born after a number of offerings to various deities, who was very dear to him and who was the receptacle of his utmost confidence. Having in course of time attained sinful youth which was capable of somenting the active arrows of the God of Love, caused by numerous evil ideas, combined with futile imaginations of the visage of sexual love, terrible like robbers in the form of unimpeded progress, of of uncontrollable senses, and which was formidable like a dense forest unsurpassable by an unfordable river in the form of unfoun. ded stupidity, Dhand-déva, began to live constantly in houses of harlots. Every day, he was wasting his money oy gambling, actively
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