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CHAPTER XVIII, 3-XXI, 16.
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one thing more advantageous, (5) and speaking and conversation with slanderers and double-dealers are the more injurious for them.'
CHAPTER XXI. 1. The sage asked the spirit of wisdom (2) thus : What is the end of the world-arranging and spiritdestroying man? 3. What is the end of him who is a scoffing man? 4-6. What is the end of the idle, the malicious, and the lazy man? 7. What is the end of a false-hearted one, (8) and the end of an arrogant one 1
9. The spirit of wisdom answered (10) thus : 'He who is a world-arranging and spirit-destroying man is as injured, in the punishment of the three nights 2, as a raging fire when water comes upon it.
113. Of him who is a scoffing man there is no glory in body and soul; (12) and every time when he opens his mouth his wickedness then increases. 13. All the fiends, too, become so lodged in his body, that they leave no goodness whatever for his body; (14) and he makes mockery of the good, and glorification of the vile. 15. Also in the worldly existence his body is infamous, and in the spiritual existence his soul is wicked. 16. And, for effecting his punishment in hell, they deliver him over to
1 Lig has. What is the end of him who is an idle man?' in $4, and repeats the same formula in each of the $85-8.
Referring to the three days and nights of final punishment, reserved for those specially wicked, at the time of the resurrection (see Bd. XXX, 12-16).
3 In TD2 the remaining sections are arranged in the following order:-$$ 18, 27-33, 19-26, 34-44, 11-17.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |