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vanu ppipyanaın piyatathayae piyani ve demi piyambhe bhavao! Tattenam se Konie raya bhambhasaraputte tassa pavitti vauyassa antie eyayattham soccanis ammahatthatutthe java hiyaye.....simhasanao abbhutthei.....egasadiya uttarasamgam karei....amjali mauliya hatthe titthayarabhimuhe sattattha payai anugacitti.....tikattu evam vayasi.....namotthunam arihamtanam.....sampattanam..... Ibid, 11-18.
The uttarasanga position is the one, in which a Jain layman bows down; he has to mask his mouth with a scarf, which should be a single piece of cloth without any joints, in order not to kill the lives of air.
Namotthunam, which is also known as Sakkathui, (Sakrastuti), is a hymn to pay homage to the Tirthankaras. This also indicates that Konika was a Jain 'Sravaka'.
Namotthunam samanassa bhagavao Mahavirassa adikarassa, tithakarassa Java sampaviokamassa mamsdhimmaigarassa dhaminova desagassa vamdaminam bhagavam tatthagayam ihagate pasaume bhagvam tathagae iahgayam tikattu, vamdamti namam samti'. - Aupapatika Sutra, Samavasarana Adhikara, 18.
(30) Ibid, 102-37.
(31) Parisisata Parva of Hom-Candracarya, cantons IV V. v. 15-54.
(32) Buddhist India, p. 88.
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Ibid, pp. 15-16.
(34) Samyukata Nikaya, 1-81 (The Book of Kindred Sayings, Tr. by Mrs. Rhys Davids, Vol. I, p. 109.
(35) Ibid, Vol. I, p. 109.
(36) Vinaya Pitaka, Culla Vagga, VII 3-6 (The Book of Discipline, Tr. by I.B. Horner, Vol. V, p. 268). Cf. also "Shri Chand Kam; uria" in Chapter V of this book.
