Protected in thoughts, words, and acts, subduing his senses and keeping the vows, he practised true Sramanahood throughout life. (47)

After practising severe austerities both of them became Kevalins, and having completely annihilated their Karman, they reached the highest perfection. (48)

Thus act the enlightened, the wise, the clever ones; they turn from pleasures as did this best of men . (49)

Thus I say.

Footnotes

^112:2 According to the Brahmanical account Vasudeva lived in Mathura. The name given to the town by the Gainas is apparently derived from Sauri, an epithet of Krishna, whose grandfather was Sura. Soriyapura may be Saurikapura or Sauryapura. The latter rendering adopted by our commentators is based on a wrong etymology.

^113:1 Raimai, Raimai, and Rayamati are the forms of her name in Prakrit; the spellings Ragimati and Ragamati are also met with in Sanskrit.

^113:2 Viz. Ugrasena. He was placed on the throne by Krishna on the death of Kamsa, cf. Vishnu Purana V, 21. He and Devaka were the sons of Ahuka, Kamsa was a son of Ugrasena, and Devaki a daughter of Devaka, loc. cit. IV, 14. According to the legend of Krishna, as told by the Brahmans and Gainas, Garasandha afterwards repeatedly attacked Mathura. Krishna therefore built Dvaraka on the shore of the western ocean, and sent thither the Yadava tribe, loc. cit. V, 22 and 23. The events narrated in the text must be understood to have occurred in Dvaraka, as is evident from verse 21.

^113:3 Gandhahastin, an elephant of the best class, whose very smell is sufficient, as is believed, to frighten common elephants, see verse 55.

^113:4 Dasara in Prakrit. They are a clan descended from Yadu.

^114:1 In verse 10 Arishtanemi rides on an elephant, but in the sequel he is supposed to travel in a car. Unless the poet can be charged with having made this blunder, which I think just possible, verse 10 must be considered a later addition.

^114:2 The form of the verb akkhahim for akkhanti is worthy of note, because him as ending of the third person plural belongs to Apabhramsa. It is interesting to find a true Apabhramsa form in a text so old as ours, for it seems to prove that at all times Apabhramsa went along with the common Prakrit, a vulgar or low with a high middle-Indian language.

^115:1 Raivataka is mount Girnar in Kathiawad. The hill is one of the most sacred places of the Gainas, and is covered with temples of the Ginas. It is also sacred to the Hindus on account of its connection with the history of Krishna. The poetical description of mount Raivataka forms the subject of the fourth sarga of the Sisupalavadha by Magha.

^115:2 The lunar mansion, the chief star of which is Spica or a Virginis.