As the ocean of inexhaustible water, the delight of Svayambhu , which is full of precious things of many kinds, (has no equal), neither has a very learned monk. (30)

Monks who equal the ocean in depth, who are difficult to overcome, are frightened by nobody (or nothing), and are not easily assailed, who are full of extensive learning and take care of themselves, will go to the highest place, after their Karman has been annihilated. (31)

Therefore, seeker after the highest truth, study the sacred lore, in order to cause yourself and others to attain perfection. (32)

Thus I say.

Footnotes

^47:1 Literally, who always remains in his teacher's kula.

^47:2 Kanthaka. The horse of Buddha is called Kanthaka; our passage shows that the word is not a proper noun, but an appellative.

^47:3 This is the burden of all verses down to verse 30.

^47:4 I have supplied these words here and in the following verses. The commentators try to do without them, and labour to point out qualities of the monk, which correspond to the attributes of the subject of the comparison.

^48:1 Eugenia Jambu. According to the commentators the very tree is meant from which Gambudvipa took its name. They make of the presiding (anadhiya) deity, the god Anadrita. I am not prepared to say that there is such a god as Anadrita. The name looks suspicious. I think anadhiya is equal to agnasthita.

^49:1 According to the cosmography of the Gainas the Sita is a river which takes its rise in the Nila range and falls into the Eastern ocean. The Nila is the fourth of the six parallel mountain-barriers, the southernmost of which is the Himalaya. (Trailokya Dipika, Umasvatis' Tattvarthadhigama Sutra, &c.)

^49:2 This epithet apparently refers to Vishnu's sleeping on the ocean.

TWELFTH LECTURE

HARIKESA.

Harikesa-Bala was born in a family of Svapakas (Kandalas); he became a monk and a sage, possessed of the highest virtues, who had subdued his senses. (1)

He observed the rules with regard to walking, begging, speaking, easing nature, and receiving and keeping (of things necessary for a monk) controlled himself, and was always attentive (to his duty). (2)

He protected from sin his thoughts, speech, and body , and subdued his senses.

Once on his begging tour, he approached the enclosure of a Brahmanical sacrifice. (3)

When (the priests) saw him coming up, emaciated by austerities, in a miserable condition, and with the poorest outfit, they laughed at him, the ruffians. (4)

Stuck up by pride of birth, those killers of animals, who did not subdue their senses, the unchaste sinners, made the following speech: (5)

'Who is that dandy coming there? he is swarthy, dreadful, with a turned-up nose, miserably clad, a very devil of a dirty man, with a filthy cloth put on his neck? (6)