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अष्टकप्रकरणम्
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snāyādeveti na tu yattato hino grhāśramaḥ. tatra caitadato nyāyātprasarisā’sya na yujyate.
That ( after recital ) one should compulsorily perform bath ( intending coupulation ) is not preached here, even in the inferior order of the house-holder. Here, also (in house-holder's case ) its praise is not reasonable.
adoșakirtanādeva prasaṁsā cet kathaṁ bhavet. arthāpatyā sadoșasya doșābhāvaprakīrtanāt.
(Opponents may say ) How depicting something as faultless be considered its praise. Ācārya says by circumstantial implication describing something faulty as flawless ( naturally ) amounts to its praise.
tatra pravsttihetutvāttyājyabuddherasambhavāt. vidhyukteristasaṁsiddheruktireșā na bhadrikā.
This statement ( there is no sin in sexual carnality ) is not just, causing the inclination towards it and shunning the attitude of abstention from it. It also sounds like an injunction, advocating sexual carnality.
prāņināṁ bādhakar caitacchāstre gitaṁ maharşibhiḥ. nalikātaptakaņakapraveśajñātatastathā.
Great sages have preached in canons through an illustration, that this intercourse is the destroyer of creatures, in the same way as the penetration of heated rod into pipe, kills insects.
mūlar caitadadharmasya bhavabhāvapravardhanam. tasmādvişānnavattyājyamidaṁ mộtyumanicchatā.
This ( sexual carnality ) is the cause of vices and increases the cycle of birth, hence one, not desiring death should abstain from it like that from the poisonous food.
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