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forward cach of the five brothers to be food for the other four and the father. Then they all agreed to cat the headless trunk of Sumsuma, did so, returned home and again indulged in pleasures of life. So also the Jaina monk (in exceptional circumstances) cats food just to sustain his body and, then, enjoys the pleasure of nirvana.
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Moving ahead with the severed head of Sumsumā, Cilatiputra knew not what to do, when he came across a Jaina monk and requested him to preach him dharma, in short, promising that he would not indulge in violence thereafter. The monk uttered : "uvasamo-vivego-samvaro." Cilatiputra instantly sought solitude, reflected on these terms which meant for him quenching of anger etc., power of discrimination between good and bad in regard to wealth and bed, and controlling of senses. He acted accordingly by throwing away the severed head and sword and then entering into meditation achieved equanimity. Soon smelling the blood, ants appeared there and punched his body from toe to top like a sieve. Cilatiputra borc all this for two-and-a half days, breathed his last and was reborn in the Sahasrara heaven.
This tale of Cilatiputra in the Avasyaka-curni is just an claboration of a few concerned skeletal or mnemonic gahas in the Avasyaka-niryukti. After giving the niryukti of Sarvavirati- sāmāyika (absolute mental equipoise) in gahā No. 864. and after just enumerating the names of the eight exemplary ascetic heroes in the respective oreder of its paryāyas (Cilātīputra being the 4th for samāsa) in gāhā No. 862, the author of the Niryukti, in due course, presents four skeletal gahās (Nos.472-475) that cover in 'telegraphic style' the exemplary life-sketch of Cilatiputra. The text of these four gahas is as follows:
Jo tihim pachim sammam samabhigao samjamam samarūdho Uvasama-vivega-samvara Cilāiputtaṁ namamsāmi (872) Ahisaria pachim soniyagamdhena jassa kīdio
Khayamti uttamangam tam dukkarakarakam vaṁdel (873) Dhiro Cilaiputto muimgaliyahim calanivva kato
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