mn85:28.1 Then it occurred to me,
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mn85:28.2 ‘Why don’t I just take a little bit of food each time, a handful of broth made from mung beans, horse gram, chickpeas, or green gram?’
mn85:28.3 So that’s what I did,
mn85:28.4 until my body became severely emaciated.
mn85:28.5 Due to eating so little, my major and minor limbs became like the joints of an eighty-year-old or a dying man,
mn85:28.6 my bottom became like a camel’s hoof,
mn85:28.7 my vertebrae stuck out like beads on a string,
mn85:28.8 and my ribs were as gaunt as the broken-down rafters on an old barn.
mn85:28.9 Due to eating so little, the gleam of my eyes sank deep in their sockets, like the gleam of water sunk deep down a well.
mn85:28.10 Due to eating so little, my scalp shriveled and withered like a green bitter-gourd in the wind and sun.
mn85:28.11 Due to eating so little, the skin of my belly stuck to my backbone, so that when I tried to rub the skin of my belly I grabbed my backbone, and when I tried to rub my backbone I rubbed the skin of my belly.
mn85:28.12 Due to eating so little, when I tried to urinate or defecate I fell face down right there.
mn85:28.13 Due to eating so little, when I tried to relieve my body by rubbing my limbs with my hands, the hair, rotted at its roots, fell out.