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Rasarnavasudhakara 3.487

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3.487

Now, vyavahāra: / But vyavahāra is a dialogue of two or three that causes laughter. 279a

3.487.p2

As in that very prahasana (named Ānandakośa), the Buddhist (looking at the ascetic): "From where does this shaven-headed single-staffed ascetic come?"

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Mithyātīrtha (looking, averting his gaze, to himself): "A proponent of momentariness should not even be spoken to. Even so, concealing my staff, I shall render him speechless. (Openly) Hey, advocate of the void! I am without a staff and unshaven up to my neck!"

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The Jain (to himself): "Surely he is an illusionist! Be it so. I too, concealing something, shall ask about what is at hand. (Openly) Hey, proponent of universal transformation! You with large testicles, what is the authority for the rule that, although hairs are of the same class, some are sheared off while others are kept?"

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Mithyātīrtha: "This living impurity, a wandering hell, a human fiend, should not be spoken to even when [something is] concealed."

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Niṣkacchakīrti (respectfully): "Friend, Jain sage! In debate you have brought this illusionist to a point of defeat known as incomprehension!"

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Mithyātīrtha (to himself): "Surely these two also are just like me, mere belly-fillers by the simple wearing of religious marks." (So saying, he sits down on the platform at the base of the sacred fig tree.)

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Here, in this passage, the dialogue of the ascetic, the Buddhist, and the Jain is vyavahāra.

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