End of the Seventh Lecture, called Liberation.

Footnotes

^74:1 Ahesanigga: it had those qualities which are required of a thing the mendicant may accept.

^74:2 Ahapariggahiya = ahaparigrihita.

^74:3 The preceding lessons treated of suicide conceded to sick persons as a means of entering Nirvana. The eighth lesson, which is written in slokas, describes the different kinds of religious deaths which form the end of a twelve-years' mortification of the flesh (samlekhana). But the ascetic must ask and get the permission of his Guru, before he commits suicide.

^75:1 Compare lecture 7, lesson 6, section 3.

^75:2 I.e. for preserving the life, when too severe penance brings on sickness and the probability of instant death.

^75:3 Here commences the description of the bhaktapratyakhyanamarana, suicide by rejecting food.

^76:1 Viz. the ingitamarana, which differs from the preceding one by the restriction of the motions of the candidate for suicide to a limited space.

^76:2 I.e. of body, speech, and mind; doing, or causing, or allowing to be done.

^76:3 He should not give way to melancholy thoughts.

^77:1 It is called paovagamana, translated by the commentators padapopagamana, remaining motionless like a felled tree. This etymology, which is generally adopted by the Gainas, is evidently wrong; for the Sanskrit prototype is the Brahmanical prayopagamana.

^77:2 This is the scholiast's interpretation of nimamtegga nimantrayet.

^78:1 Numam karma maya va.