^197:2 It is not the common Asoka, Jonesia Asoka, which has red flowers.

^197:3 Corarias Indica, blue jay; according to some, a kingfisher.

^197:4 Linum Usitatissimum, whose flowers are blue.--The word for grey is kau = kapota; in the comm., however, it is described as kimkit krishna, kimkil lohita, which would be rather brown. But the description given in our verse leaves no doubt that grey colour is intended.

^197:5 Crotolaria Juncea.

^197:6 Terminalia Tomentosa.

^197:7 Anka, manivisesha.

^197:8 Jasminum Multiflorum.

^197:9 The gourd Lagenaria Vulgaris.

^197:10 Azadirachta Indica.

^198:1 The aggregate of three spices, &c., black and long pepper and dry ginger.

^198:2 Feronia Elephantum.

^198:3 A kind of intoxicating drink, extracted from the blossoms of Lythrum Fructicosum, with sugar, &c.

^198:4 Acacia Sirisa.

^198:5 The Lesyas may possess their qualities in a low, middle, or high degree; each of these degrees is again threefold, viz. low, middle, and high. In this way the subdivision is carried on up to 243.

^199:1 I.e. commits the five great sins.--The following verses give the character--lakshana--of the Lesyas.

^199:2 This is, according to the comm., the meaning of the word niddhamdhasaparinamo.

^199:3 Paliunkaga-uvahiya = pratikunkaka-upadhika.

^199:4 Yogavan upadhanavan.

^200:1 Literally: who avoids the arta and raudra dhyanas, and practises the dharma and sukla dhyanas. These terms cannot be adequately translated; the reader may therefore be referred for details to Bhandarkar's Report, p. 110 ff.

^200:2 Thanaim sthanani.

^200:3 Samaya is the smallest division of time = instant, moment.

^201:1 Viz. as denizens of hell, brutes, men, and gods. Only the three first Lesyas lead to being born in hell.

^201:2 The consequence of this statement appears to be that at the expiration of the Lesya a new one is produced. The commentators, however, are not explicit on this head.

^201:3 About the former years, see above, <page 16>, note .

^202:1 This verse seems to lay down the duration of the Lesya in the case of common gods, while the next one applies to Bhavanapatis, &c.

^203:1 The question treated rather darkly in the next three verses is, according to the comm., the following:--Every individual dies in the same Lesya in which he is born. When his Lesya ends with his life, then the soul must get a new Lesya. Our verses state at which time the new Lesya comes into existence or is joined with the soul.

THIRTY-FIFTH LECTURE.

THE HOUSELESS MONK.

Learn from me, with attentive minds, the road shown by the wise ones , which leads a monk who follows it, to the end of all misery. (1)

Giving up the life in a house, and taking Pravragya, a sage should know and renounce those attachments which take hold of men. (2)