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The Practice of the Earlier Tirthankaras
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These may have been the four Yamas or methods of restraint. Or to the three, the senses may have been added as the fourth like what we find in the Mûlâcâra :
विरदो सव्व-सावज्ज पिहिदिदिओ।
जीवो सामाइयं णामसंजमट्ठाणमुत्तमं ।।७, २३।। While this point of the four may be still open for investigation, I think it is fairly clear how the system of Parsavanath was Sâmâyika while that of Mâhâvîra Chedopasthânika and on this point both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions agree.
If we have to make the Buddhist statements about câtuyama significant, we might understand them as follows:
1. सब-वारि-वारितो-Guarded against all channels of evil i.e. ___ आश्रव-रहित 2. सव्व-वारि-युतो- Requipped with all kinds of संवर 3. सव्व-वारि-धुतो- Absolved of all evil णिज्जरायुक्त 4. सव्व-वारि-पुट्ठो- Manifestly free from sin मुक्त
