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136 The Last Five Upãngas [ V. Lect. 1. down to ) merchants and others who bow down, salute and wait upon Lord Aritthanemi. If he comes here to the Nandanavana gradually moving from town to town. I shall also bow down to him (and so forth, down to) and wait upon him.”
185. Then Lord Arit.thanemi, knowing this thought of prince Nisadha, visited Nandanavana with eight thousand monks with him. The assembly went out to hear him. Then prince Nisadha, getting intelligence about this and becoming greatly delighted and pleased, went out to hear him having taken his seat in a chariot with four bells and carried by horses (he is to be described here exactly as Jamâlî, down to) having taken the permission of his parents. he got himself initiated, and became a houseless monk (and so forth, down to) a. self-restrained anchorite.
186. Then that houseless monk Nisadha studied under the worthy elderly monks of Lord Aritthanemi the eleven Angas such as Samãiya and others, and observing two days' fasts, three days' fasts and various other kinds of penances, and having observed asceticism for full nine months, having observed 21 days' fasts in which forty
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