Buddha: His Life, his Doctrine, his Order c8.s1.t4.20

c8.s1.t4.20

[^ *]: I take the following passages from one of the sacred texts of the Niggantha- or Jaina-sect, founded by Buddha's contemporary Nâta-putta: "By day motionless as a statue, the countenance turned to the sun, permitting himself to burn on a place exposed to the sun's rays, by night cowering, unclothed . . . by this conspicuous, great, intense, prominent, precious, efficacious, rich, promising, noble, exalted, high, supreme, conspicuous, very potent exercise of penance he appeared very debilitated . . . with penance richly covered, but impoverished in flesh and blood like a fire covered over with heaps of ashes, shining brilliantly through penance, through radiance, in nobleness of the radiance of penance, there he stands."