Vajjalaggam

SR No.: 020873
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M V Patwardhan
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society
Publication Year: 1969
Total Pages: 706
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 11 MB

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89. SECTION ON THE OCEAN
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754) Though the ocean dispenses its gems incessantly, its stock of gems does never run out. Wealth disappears because of the exhaustion of one's religious merit and never because of gifts and enjoyment.
755) The ocean does not lose its greatness (or, does not become depleted), even though gems are extracted from it (by people). And yet it must be admitted that very rare in the ocean are the gems which are comparable to the moon!
756) The moon, though cast off by the ocean, rose to the status of being an ornament on the head of God Siva. But we wonder who was put in its place by the ocean (i.e. how the ocean could fill the void created by the loss of the moon).
757) Although the moon has been separated (torn away) from the ocean, some-how or other, because of fate, still its light causes great joy (to the ocean) even from a distance.
758) Having given your gems to the Gods, oh ocean, you surrendered yourself to the hungry submarine fire (to satisfy its hunger), and thereby you have left your mark (of greatness and magnanimity) permanently in this world.
759) Countless are the conches (shells), spotless white, born of the ocean. But none of them has attained to that celebrity (eminence, renown), which the Pāñcajanya conch (belonging to Vişnu) possesses.
760) Oh ocean, you have been really whitened (glorified or raised to distinction) by that conch born of you-that conch for which even Krsna (Vişnu) stretched out his hand, putting himself into the position of a supplicant.
90. The Section on the Censure of the Ocean 761) Oh you lord of the rivers, you have nectar and gems at your complete disposal and yet you do not make the world immune from death and poverty. Are you not ashamed of your turbulent (restless, flashing) waves ?