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To these words of Kési Kumāra, Ganadhara Gautama made the following reply:
Ganadhara Gautama:-Love, hatred etc are strong and terrible fetters of attachment. Having regularly destroyed them I live in accordance with the rules of conduct
Kési śramana:-Gautama etc In the innermost heart, O Gautama! There grows a creeper which brings forth poisonous fruit. How have you torn it off ?
Gañadhara Gautama:-1 have completely up-rooted that creeper and having turned it out from it root, I am free from the eating of its poison. I live in accordance with the correct rules of concuct,
Kési Sramana:-Which is that creeper ? Gañadhara Gautama :-Love of existence (in this world) is said to be that dreadful creeper which bring forth terrible fruit; having judiciously, torn it out, I live regularly.
Well, Gautama, etc.
Kési Ganadhara:-Gautama! There is blazing up a frightful fire which burns the embodied beings; how have you put it out?
केसिमेवंबुवंत तु गोअमो इणमम्बवी। विण्णाणेण समागम्म धम्मसाइणमिच्छिअं ॥ ३१ ॥ पश्चयत्यं च लोगस्स, नाणाविहविगप्पण । जत्तत्य गहणत्यं च, कोगे लिंगप्पओअण ॥ ३२ ॥ अह मवे पइण्णा उ, मुक्खसम्भूअसाहणो । नाणच देसण घेव, चरितं चेव निच्छए ।। ३३ ।। साहु गोअम ! पण्णा ते, छिण्णो मे संसओ इमो। अनो वि संसओ मज्झं तं मे कहसु गोअमा ! ॥ ३४ ॥ अणेगाण सहसाण मझे चिट्ठसि गोअमा। ते अ ते अभिगच्छंति, कहते निज्जिा तुमे ! ॥ ३५ ।।
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