དེས་སྨྲས་པ། གལ་ཏེ་དེ་ལྟ་ན་རབ་ཏུ་འབྱུང་ངོ་། །
After they allowed his going forth, he said, “So long as I uphold the Lokāyata philosophy, I will not cut my fingernails.” So he let his fingernails grow extraordinarily long and for this he became known as the wandering mendicant Dīrghanakha (He Who Has Long Fingernails).
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