________________ Notes 109 laymen and laywomen. According to the commandments of the Soriptures,such monks would not be called true monks. In the Satrakrtanga Sutra also, a similar view is propounded. Hence true monks, acoording to the scriptures are never to engage themselves in practising any such prophetical arts. St. 190. FARG. see notes on St. 125. ETTEUT Haymi. (Sk. Teretai BATT&TTTT). The worship or propitiation of the Nine Dignities already explained fully in notes on St. 1. Here the poet, through the mouth of the sage Munichanda, introduces the main object of his writing the story of Sirivala which is to create in our hearts a devotion for the Navepada which as he says, is the root-cause of all our happiness in this world as well as in the next, and which, as he says further, bas enabled, enables and wil enable many a soul in getting themselves to be emancipated. St. 191. St. 23 and this stanza are exactly the same word to word, the only difference being in the last word of each. In st. 23, the last word is gurce and in this stanza it is UCHT. St. 192. seperti (Sk, saate:). The essence.
