Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 001383
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayvallabh
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 708
Language: Prakrit, Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 13 MB

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VAJJĀLAGGAM
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51) A wicked person, who creates dissension between friends intimate like the finger-nail and the flesh out of which it grows, who has a double face (दुम्मुहओ = दोमुहओ who is double-tongued ) who is capable of splitting up (those who are joined together in friendship) (or who is capable of robbing money (अस्थि = अस्ति = द्रव्यम्) = अर्थि) (or who is capable of disappointing poor suppliants ( and who is crooked (narrow) in mind ( f : :), is like a nail-paring instrument (nail-cutter), which separates the fingernail from the flesh in which it is embedded, which has two sharp edges (दुम्मुहओ = दोमुहओ), which is capable of cutting even a bone (af) (or bony cartilages, the nail being a bony growth) and which is narrow (tapering) in the middle (
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52) The two-faced wicked person born in a base family is sweet (pleasing) in his utterances, only so long as the food given to him is in his mouth; but the moment the food is digested, he begins to talk harshly just as a muraja (a longish tabour played at once on the both its sides), possessed of two mouths and not touching (or resting on) the earth (--) (but always placed on a wooden stand or held by the player on his knees or suspended from the neck), produces sweet sounds only so long as the lumps of wheat-flour rest on its mouths, but the moment the lumps of of wheat-flour are worn off (or peel off), it begins to produce bad (jarring) sounds.
53) The wicked person devoid of piety (f) and virtues (गुणरहिओ) and overpowered by greed (लोहसंभूओ = लोभसंभूतः or संभूतलोभ : ) as soon as he is separated (removed) from the place (he was occupying (a), strikes the heart of others and pierces it, like an arrow made of steel (लोहसंभूओ = लोहसंभूतः ), which when discharged from a bow (fast), detached from the bow-string (f) and let loose (released) by the archer) under a particular posture of the body (fat), strikes the heart of the victim and pierces it.
54) What has never happened in our life-time so far, nor will ever happen even in a hundred thousand future lives--even that is described by the wicked just in such a way as to produce the illusion of verisimilitude (reality).