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and other devout persons who had come there. Becoming gre. atly delighted, Skandaka said:-Bhagavan ! I like the sermon on the Duties of Ascetics. I have perfect confidence in it. I have a sincere desire to observe them. Your sayings are undoubtedly true. I accept them." Saying so, Skandaka went to some distance in the North-East direction and having left aside his Kamapdalu (water -pot), Tridanda (the triple staff), and Padukas (wooden slipper) in a soltiary place, he went to śramaņa Bhagavāna Mahavira, and with a low salutation, he said:- Bhagavan ! This Samsāra resembles a house blazing with fire on all sides. 'The owner of the house swiftly comes out of the burning house taking with him whatever necessary things he may get hold of. O Bhagavan ! In this (forest) conflagretion of this Samsāra, all my entire property is my Ātmā (Soul). It is highly beneficial for me to renounce this world, if I like to rescue it (my Atma-Soul) from the blazing Samsāra.
एत्य ण से खंदए कच्चायणस्सगो संबुद्धे समण' भगवं महावीर वंदइ नमसइ २ एवं वदासी-इच्छामि ण भत्ते ? तुम्भं अंतिए केवलिपन्नत्त धम्म निसामेत्तए, अहामुह देवाणुप्पिया ! मा पडिबंध। तए ण समणे मग महावीरे खंदयस्स कच्चायणस्सगोते तीसे य महतिमहालियाए परिसाए धम्म परिकहेइ, धम्मकहा भाणियबा। तए णं से खंदए कच्चायणस्सगोत्ते समणस्स भगवओ महावीरस्स अंतिए धम्म सोम्चा निसम्म हहतुढे जाव हियए उहाइ उठेइ २ समणं मगवं महावीरं तिक्खुत्तो आयाहिणं पयाहिणं करेइ २ एवं ददासी-सदहामि णं भंते ! निग्गय पाचयणं पत्तियामि णं मंते ! निग्गंथ पावयण एवमेयं मंते ! सहमेय भंते ! अवितहमेयं भंते ! असंदिद्धिमेयं भंते ! इच्छियमेयं भंते ! पडिच्छियमेयं मते ! पडिच्छियमेयं मंते ! इच्छिय पडिच्छियमेयं मंते ! से जहेय तुभं वदह तिकटु समणं भगवं महावीर वंदति नमंसति २ उत्तरपुरच्छिमं दिसीभायं अवकमइ २ विदंडं ज कुंडियं च जाव घाउरत्ताओ य एगते एडेड २ येणेच समणे भगवं महावीरे तेणेव उवागच्छइ २ समणं मगवं महावीरे
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