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Translator's Foreword
CHAPTER FOUR
CHAPTER ONE
Couplet 1 Timing of intake 3; the shape of the universe 4; ac.ivities-iriyapathiki and samparāikī 4; merit in bestowing food 6; goal of a karmafree soul 7; on the touch of pain 10; activities again 10; on lapses in intake 11; prohibition regarding space, etc., 13; criteria for purity 15. CHAPTER Two
On renunciation right and wrong 17 types of renunciation 18; renounced, unrenounced, their distribution 21; question of eternality 26.
CHAPTER THREE
CONTENTS
Food intake by plants 28; tinges and karma 30 ; karma experience and exhaustion 32; eternality or otherwise of infernal beings 36.
CHAPTER FIVE
BOOK SEVEN
Types of worldly beings 38.
On birds 39.
CHAPTER SIX
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Bondage and experience of life-span 40; karma, painful and painfree 42; karma, pleasant and unpleasant 44; last phase of the time-cycle in Bharata 46.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Activities of a zealous monk 52; on desires and experiences 53; on the chadmasta and the kevalin 57; experience with and without desiring 59. CHAPTER EIGHT
On the chadmasta again 62; pain from sin 62 ; activities without renunciation 63.
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