Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c14.t1.12

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(1) Voluntary renunciation of the world, (2) renunciation due to sudden anger, (3) renunciation due to poverty, (4) renunciation on seeing a dream, (5) renunciation in fulfilment of a vow (padisuga), (6) renunciation because of recollecting previous birth, (7) renunciation due to sickness, (8) renunciation due to insult, (9) renunciation by being enlightened by gods and (10) renunciation out of affection for a son who had already taken to order.⁸ We come across instances when sentimental people escaped from the worldly state at the slightest provocation. We are told that the queen of Devilāsatta of Ujjenī saw a grey hair on her husband's head, which she took out coiling round her finger. The king said that an envoy of old age had come, and keeping it in a golden plate, covering it with a pair of silken garment, took it around the city. The king anointed his son on the throne and pronouncing “our forefathers renounced before their hair turned grey”, retired from the world along with his queen.⁹