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Thus those beings who practise the first twelve kinds of actions , have not attained perfection, (&c., all down to) have not, nor do, nor will put an end to all misery. (83)

But those beings who practise the thirteenth kind of action, have attained perfection, (&c., all down to) have put, or put, or will put an end to all misery. (84)

Thus a monk who obtains his soul's good and benefit, who guards himself, who (well directs the functions) of his soul, who well exerts himself, who protects himself (from evil), who is careful of himself, who saves himself (from the Samsara), should withhold his soul (from the twelve kinds of committing sins). (85)

Thus I say.

Footnotes

^355:2 Kiriyathane = kriyasthanam, literally, the subject of activity.

^356:1 Upasanta and anupasanta.

^356:2 Vibhanga, more literally, case.

^356:3 Dandasamadana, explained papopadana.

^356:4 A difference is made between feeling (anubhavanti) and knowing (vidanti): (1) the sangnins or rational beings feel and know impressions; (2) the Siddhas only know them; (3) the reasonless beings only feel them; (4) things without life neither know nor feel them. Sentient beings are those in Nos. 1 and 3.

^357:1 Compare Akaranga Sutra II, 2, 3, 18, note 1. One MS. reads eraga for paraga. Eraka is the name of a reed.

^357:2 Moksha is the name of a tree = mushkaka. The Akaranga and one of our MSS. have moraga, peacocks' feathers. But that is out of place here.

^357:3 Kukkha is a white water-lily. The Akaranga Sutra has kukkaka = kurkaka, brush.

^357:4 Pakkaka in the Akaranga Sutra.

^358:1 Or a group of trees.

^358:2 A nearly identical enumeration of places occurs in Akaranga Sutra II, 3, 3, 2. The words in brackets seem to be added later; for Silanka does not comment upon them, and expressly mentions ten places. They are generally omitted in the sequel when the same passage occurs again.

^358:3 Akasmaddande. The commentators remark that the word akasmat is in Magadha pronounced by the people as in Sanskrit. The fact is that we meet here and in the end of the next paragraph with the spelling akasmat, while in the middle of the paragraphs it is spelled akamha, which is the true Prakrit form.

^359:1 Paspalum Sobriculatum.

^359:2 They are specialised in the text as Syamakam trinam, mukundaka vrihiusita, and kalesuka. Only the two first are mentioned in our dictionaries.