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Samvara and Nirjară
xi) Śayya: the hard bed, which will vary in different cases and in accordance with the seasons, such as: matting, straw, mud floor, cement floor, hard wooden bed.
xii) Ākroṣas: injuries, insults, assaults, hard words.
xiii) Vadhas: blows, ill-treatment, wounds.
xiv) Yacană: the quest for alms in the form of food, shelter, clothing, remedies, books and other necessary objects.
xv) Alabha: the refusal to give, which must sometimes be endured.
xvi) Roga: illness.
xvii) Tṛṇasparśa: literally, the touch of grass and thence more generally: the roughness or prickliness of thorns, brambles, gravel, straw or matting.25
xviii) Mala: dirtiness due to perspiration or dust.
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xix) Satkāra-puraskāra: the feeling of frustration due to absence of honours, esteem and reward.
xx) Prajñā: wisdom, knowledgeability; the ascetic must not win glory through exceptional knowledgeability, and thus become vain and arrogant.
xxi) Ajñāna: ignorance, which prevails so long as one does not have perfect knowledge.
xxii) Adarśana: unenlightened, wavering faith, such as demands proofs and tangible results.26
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25 Cf. ADH VI, 105; the Digambara munis sleep on straw even in the winter.
26 On the subject of the parisahas, cf. ADh VI, 83-112; AS I, 8, 2, 7-10; 1315; SkrS I, 3, 3; TS IX, 8-9; US II. Not all of these sufferings are undergone
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