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[ अथ णं भदन्त ! युष्माकं समीपे स्थूळकं मृषावादं जिहाछिद्रादिहेतु कन्याळीकादिकं पञ्चविधं प्रत्याख्यामि दाक्षिण्यादि अविषये यावज्जीवं द्विविधं त्रिविधेन मनसा वचसा कायया न करोमि न कारयामि तस्स भदन्त ! प्रतिक्रमामि निन्दामि गर्दामि आत्मानं व्युत्सृजामि |
Atha nam bhadanta! yusmākam samipé sthulakam mriṣā vädam jihvāchidādihétum kanya-li kādikam pañcavidham pratyākhyāmi dāksiṇyādī a-visayė yāvajjīvam dvividham tri-vidhéna maṇasă vacasā kāyaya na karomi na kārayami tassa bhadanta ! pratikramāmu nindāmi garhāmi ātmānam vyutsrijāmi 1.
Now, O Worshipful Sire ! In your presence, I take a VOW to abandon the speaking of sthula (great) untruths-speaking lies for which the punishment was cutting out of the tongue of the offender, and untruths pertaining to (1) a virgin, (2), a cow, (3). land, (4). misappropriation of deposit and (5) giving false evidence as long as I live, without caring for courtesy, du-vidham (in two ways-I will not myself do it, and I will not have it done by others), and tividhéna (in three ways, by mind, speech and body, O Worshipful Sire, I retire from these sins (of previous lives) I censure them, I atone for them, and I repudiate my soul from these sins.
Because,
असत्यतो लघीयस्त्वमसत्याद्वचनीयता | अधोगतरसत्याच्च तदसत्यं परित्यजेत् ॥ १ ॥
कन्यागो भूम्यलीकानि न्यासापहरणं तथा कूटसाक्ष्य च पचेति स्थुलासत्यान्यकीर्तयन् ॥ १ ॥
Kanyagobhūmyalîkāni nyāsapa--haraṇam tathā Kutasaksyam ca pancéti sthulasatyanyakîrtayan
1. Untruths pertaining to a ( 1 ) virgin (2) a cow. (3) land, ( 4 ) misappropriation of deposit, and (5) giving false evidence - These five are said to be great untruths.
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