Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
The Forty-First Chapter
281
Those who are the offspring of Brahma are called Brahmanas. Brahma himself is the Self-Existent, the Lord, the Supreme, the Best Jina. ||127||
The Jina-Indra is the Supreme Brahma from the beginning, because he is the enhancer of qualities. The wise sages consider the Supreme Brahma to be under his control. ||128||
He who wears the skin of a deer, is adorned with matted hair, beard, etc., and who, having become a lustful donkey, has fallen from his Brahma-tejas, is not a Brahma. ||129||
Those who have been born from the pure womb of knowledge of the Jina-Indra, who has a divine form, are considered to be twice-born. ||130||
These best of the twice-born should not be considered to be within the categories of caste, because they have attained greatness through the performance of vows, mantras, and other rituals. ||131||
We know those who are the best of the castes, who are devoted to forbearance and purity, who are content, who have attained excellence, and whose adornment is blameless conduct. ||132||
Those who are of impure conduct, who falsely consider themselves to be twice-born, who are always eager to begin sin, and who cruelly kill animals, are not Brahmanas. ||133||
What will be the fate of those who, accepting all the sacrificial rites that are full of violence, kill animals, and who earn their livelihood from the scriptures of sin? ||134||
"They declare the Dharma to be that which is characterized by instigation and the Adharma." I see no other Karma-Chandala on this earth than those who accept this Dharma. ||135||
Those who, being cruel, kill animals, are plunderers, wicked scholars, and external to the righteous, are worthy of punishment by the kings. ||136||
Those who are more merciless than even the Rakshasas, who are cruel even to the point of killing animals, if such men are considered to be excellent, then...
1. Situated in the Supreme Abode.
2. The meaning is "having the face of a donkey due to lust."
3. Due to the attainment of learning.
4. From the unpolluted.
5. The meaning is "those who are confined to caste alone."
6. Wicked.
7. From, or directly.
8. Full of violence.
9. Those who commit violence.
10. As described in the Vedas.
11. They make a promise.
12. Thieves.
13. Merciless.
14. From the beginning of killing animals.
15. Than the Rakshasas. "Rakshasa is a corner-dweller, a devourer of flesh, a drinker of blood, and a devourer of flesh."
16. Excellence.