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will', having lost his chance like a gambler vanquished by kali.
17. Thus has been explained the fools' death against one's will'; now hear from me the wise men's death with one's will'!
18. Full of peace and without injury to any one is, as I have heard from my teachers, the death of the virtuous who coutrol themselves and subdue their sensesi.
19. Such a death does not fall to the lot of every monk, nor of every householder ; for the morality of householders is of various character and that of monks is not always good throughout.
20. Some householders are superior to some monks in self-control; but the saints are superior to all householders in self-control.
21. Bark aud skin of a goat, nakedness, twisted hair, baldness--these outward tokens will not save a sinful ascetic.
22. A sinner, though he be a mendicant friar, will not escape hell ; but a pious man, whether monk or householder, ascends to heaven.
23. A faithful man should practise2 the rules of conduct for householders, he should never neglect
1. aurugata (Jacobi gretaut )-Skt gentai TXORTA 1 kusimao is Gen. Sing., it is here used in juxtaposition with a word in Gen. Plur. Such an irregularity would of course be imossible in classical Prakrit, but the authors of metrical Jaina sútras take such liberties with grammar that we must put up with any fanlty expression, though it would be easy to correct it by a conjecture.
2. HITU ET, literally, touch with his body.
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