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proper things under the garb of propriety, or of ostensibly presenting a fair appearance but secretly practising vice or villany ; like a courtezan who plays the dancing drum in the way of her infanious profession yet with modesty affected within her veil. The import of maya-mrisá as interpreted by the Jains is fairly borne out by the well-known Bengali expression "Ghomtår bhitarê khêmtâ nächå 2.e. beating a drum within a veil : Khemtâ here bears the same reputation as the
cuncan does in France. (18) Mithyd darshana shalya or False per.
ception by psychological parallogism-This is the last of the eighteen kinds of the enumerated vices. It consists in taking a thing for what it is not, or viewing a thing as that which it is really not. Mithya Darshan, therefore, is the error attatching to the mistaken apprehension of a thing appearing as
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