Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
[SEPTEMBER, 1873
thereof? 4. Knowing what ought to be known, is fear, in the enjoyment itself there is fear, in and submitting thereunto, fearing what ought to case the sin be not known there is fear,-it is be feared, performing every duty so as to satisfy always productive of fear. 4. Of what matter the world, and living in the enjoyment of pleasure is that enjoyment, 0 wicked one, which you according to their means, they who are thus regard ? Say. Since if you are discovered your disposed never experience the evils of life. 5. family will be dishonoured, if you are caught When two persons are friends, mixing without your leg will be cut oft'; while in the act you variance, should there be misconduct on the part are in dread, and it will cause ever-enduring of one, let the other be patient, as far as he can Anguish in hell. 5. Those who are destitute bear it. If he cannot take it patiently, let him of everything that is good, and companions of not speak evil, but withdraw to a distance. the vile, have habitually sinned with damsels 6. Though another do one evil, if he say, Well, with mole-spotted breasts, and in a former let it pass, and blame himself, it is good. To birth have violated by force the wives of others, give up intimate associates, o lord of the for- shall in the next birth be born hermaphrodites ests! is hard even to brutes. 7. O king of and live by dancing. 6. Why should he look the fair hills abounding with hollow-sounding with desire upon his neighbour's wife who, after streams! does not close intimacy with the great inquiring about a propitious day, and having the arise from the idea that they forgive the griev- drum beaten that all may know, has celebrated ous faults that are committed against them? his marriage, who has a wife tender and loving Will friends be wanting to them who do what is in his own house, who then placed herself under good ? 8. Those who are gifted with patience, his care? 7. The enjoyment of the man of and who are not so rash as to destroy themselves unstable mind possessed with delusion, who though withered and famished with hunger, desires and embraces the wife of his neighbour. will not declare their misery to those who love while his neighbours reproach him and his relathem not. They will make it known only to tions fear and are troubled, is of the nature of those who have the power to help them. 9. Let that pleasure which is caused by licking a serpleasure alone, when thou canst enjoy it, if dis. pent's head. 8. Since the desire which arises grace attends it. O Lord of the hill country in the minds of the wise increases not, nor abounding in waters! though pleasure only be shows itself (by actions), nor extends beyond constantly regarded, it is preferable to enjoy it their own family, the pain which it causes being in a harmless way. 10. Although he himself be very grievous, and they, fearing lest by it they ruined, let not a man think of injuring the wor- should be put to shame before their foes, speak thy; let him not eat with whom he should not not of it at all. Therefore it dies away of itself ont, even though the flesh of his body waste in the mind. 9. An arrow, or fire, or the sun away ; let him not speak words intermingled with with shining beams, though they wound and falsehood, although he get the whole world can- burn, scoreh only the body. But desire, --since opied by the heavens for his reward.
it wounds, grieves, and burns the soul is much CHAPTER 9.--Not coveting another's wife. more to be feared than any of these things.
1. Let not the modest man covet another's 10. If he plunge overhead in the water, a wife, since the fear attending that sin is great, man may escape from the fearful red flames the pleasure is of short duration, and if you which have sprung up in, and are ravaying a daily reflect, it renders one liable to the punish- town. But though he plunge in many holy ment of death by the king, and it is a sin that rivers, desire will still be unquenched ; yea, daily leads men to hell. 2. To those who covet though he live like an anchorite on the mountheir neighbours' wives these four things, tain top, it will still burn. virtue, praise, friendship, and dignity,-will not
CHAPTER 10.--Liberality. accrue. To those who covet their neighbours' 1. To those men the gates of heaven shall wives these four things, --- hatred, vengeance, never be closed, who with tender hearts and and in accompanied with fear, --will accrue. with a mind in accordance with their alms, 3. What benefit arises from the shamelessly 1 greatly rejoicing, give even in poverty accorddesiring one's neighbour's wife? Since in the ing to their ability, even as they did in the day of going to her there is fear, in going away there prosperity. 2. Before you is disgusting old age,