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SĪTALANĀTHACARITRA
345 Also in partial-control (deśavirati), etc.,477 there is blocking of lack of self-control. In apramatta, samyata, etc., 478 it is considered blocking of negligence. In praśāntamoha and kşīņamoha, etc.,479 there would be blocking of the passions, and a complete blocking of activity would exist in the ayogikevalagunasthāna. 480 The wise man should go to the end of existence thus shut up by sarnvara, like a sea-trader across the ocean in a boat free from cracks.”
Many people were enlightened by the Lord's sermon. Some took the vow of mendicancy and some the layvows. The Lord had eighty-one gaṇabhrts, Ananda, etc. At the end of the Lord's sermon Ananda delivered a sermon. The lords of gods, asuras, and men bowed to the Lord of the World and went to their respective abodes at the end of Ananda's sermon.
Śāsanadevatās (III-114) Originating in that tīrtha, a Yaksa, named Brahmā, three-eyed, four-faced, with a lotus-seat, white, with four right arms of which three held a citron, hammer, and noose, and one was in the position bestowing fearlessness, and with four left arms holding an ichneumon, club, goad, and rosary; and Aśokā likewise originating there, the color of green gram, with a cloud for a vehicle, one right arm holding a noose and the other in boon-granting position ; and one left arm holding a fruit and the other a goad, these two became the messenger-deities of the tenth Arhat. Attended by these two, Lord Sitala wandered for twentyfive thousand pūrvas less three months.
His congregation (116-120) One hundred thousand monks, one hundred thousand and six nuns, fourteen hundred who knew the fourteen
477 105. The fifth and the sixth gunastbānas. 478 105. From the seventh through the tenth. 479 106. The eleventh through thirteenth. 480 106. The fourteenth.
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