________________ Siri Sirivalakaha (this) birth as a human being which is difficult to be obtained, and the excellent ("arya') country and (arya'), family, as well as the provision of a worthy preceptor, it behoves you to well engage yourself in the practice of true religion. (16, 17) " That religion has been propounded by all the excellent Jinas to be consisting) of four parts viz. Charity, Character, Penance, and the Pure Mental Condition-these are its (four) parts. (18) "There also Charity, without the pure men-. tal condition, does not become a cause of emancipation; and character, devoid of the pure mental condition, becomes fruitless in the world. indeed! (19) "Without the pure mental condition, even penance becomes only a cause of the increase of the flood of the world. Therefore one's own mental condition itself must be made exceedingly pure. (20) H: "The pure mental condition is the subject of the mind, and the mind is very difficult to be conquered (because) it is without any prop. Hence "Meditation' has been prescribod to be the prop for curbing it. (21) .
