________________
BOOK I, LECTURE 3, CHAPTER 3.
265
pointed out by Kâsyapa: the wise keep clear of them, but the ignorant go down in them. (14)
Kings and ministers of kings, Brâhmanas and Kshattriyas try with pleasant things to seduce a monk who leads a holy life. (15)
(They try to seduce him) with elephants, horses, chariots, and cars, with pleasure-trips (saying to him): 'Enjoy these excellent pleasures, great sage, we worship you! (16)
Clothes, perfumes, ornaments, women, and beds : enjoy these pleasures, friend, we worship you! (17)
All the vows which you, holy man, have kept while a monk, are compatible with your living in a house. (18)
It will be no sin, for you have wandered about long (enough). In this way they try to tempt him, as men decoy a pig with wild rice. (19)
Weak men who are exhorted to live as monks, but who are unable to practise control, break down like weak (bullocks carrying a heavy burden) uphill. (20)
Unable to practise the rough (i.e. control), and harassed by the austerities, weak men break down, like old oxen in going uphill. (21)
When men who are greedy, attached to women, and who love pleasures, are tempted in the way described above, they return to their houses. (22) Thus I say.
THIRD CHAPTER. As at the time of the battle the coward looks behind him for a ditch, thicket, or other hiding-place", (thinking that) nobody knows who will win ; (1)
Nama = prakkhannam, giriguhâdikam.
