kṣāntiḥ paramaṃ tapas titīkṣā nirvāṇaṃ paramaṃ vadanti buddhāḥ |
na hi pravrajitaḥ paropatāpī śramaṇo bhavati paraṃ viheṭhayan vai |26,2|
2 (184). Patience is the greatest penance; patience, the Buddha says, is the greatest nirvâṇa: he who is a priest and who injures others, who harms others, is not a Çramana (lit. one who practises virtue).