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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.847

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.847

- **Language:** English

### [v2.c29.847](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.847)

Besides practising the (thirty) pāramī, all Bodhisattas must make the five great sacrifices (mahāpariccāga)—giving up wife, children, kingdom, life and limb⁸—and must fulfil the three kinds of conduct (cariyā) ñātattha-cariyā, lokatthacariyā and buddhiatthacariyā—and the seven mahādānas as practised by Vessantara, which caused the earth to quake seven times.⁹

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