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presence. After he had circumambulated and bowed to the Blessed One, he put on the monk's dress brought by Bhagiratha. In the presence of the whole congregation, reciting the sāmāyika *** (sūtra) aloud in accordance with the Master's dictation, he took initiation with the fourfold rules. 358 The kings, vassals, ministers, etc., who had come with the princes, disgusted with existence, became mendicants with Sagara.
The charioteer of dharma delivered a sermon full of instruction, moonlight to the night-lotus of the mind, to the emperor-monk. When the (first) period of the day was completed, the Tirthakṛt stopped preaching, arose, and adorned the dais. By the power of the Master, the chief of the ganadharas, seated on the Master's footstool, delivered a sermon destroying doubt, as well as the Master. At the end of the second period of the day he stopped preaching, as a rain-cloud stops thundering after it has rained. Then the Lord set out from that place to wander elsewhere. The gods, Bhagiratha, etc. went to their respective abodes.
Sagara's omniscience (658-664)
Wandering with the Master, the great muni Sagara learned the twelve angas as easily as the alphabet. Always free from negligence, he honored completely the five kinds of carefulness and the three controls, mothers of right conduct. He did not know at all any weariness arising from the trials because of joy produced by desire to hear (the scriptures) at the Master's feet constantly. He was never proud at the thought, "I am the brother of the Cakrin of the Three Worlds and am Cakrin myself," but on the contrary he showed reverence to the munis. Though he had taken initiation later, by penance and
357 652. See I, n. 329.
358 652. I.e., the four vows. The first and twenty-fourth Tirthankaras observed the five mahāvratas. The other twenty-two observed four. The fifth, chastity, was included in the fourth, poverty.
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