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V. When the Ring has worshipped, two sage-like Cāraṇas also come and worship. They are pleased to find a king so devoted to Jina-doctrine and compliment the king upon it.
1. जयनंदण and अहिनंदण are their names.
6. One who, without attachment to it, bathes in milk, he indeed belongs to the Tirthakaras,' Meaning thereby that it is very difficult to live in the midst of enjoyments and yet not to be attached to them.
10-11. The king, however, says that without proper initiation (fan), it is not possible for a layman like him to attain to purity of mind, speech and body.
VI The king expatiates on the difficulties of a layman trying to attain purity of thought, speech and body. The sage points out the way to do that. It is self-restraint.
4. Read are, the Prakrit for f. gre is misread. 8. चक्खिहि is due to attraction, from चक्खु.
VII The king asks further questions, viz what are the eight basic qualities, the fine guņavratas and soon.
3. For सवायहं read सावयहं.
VIII Ahinandana tells him what are the eight qualities, the fine subsidiary vows. Three of them being Jīvadayā, Satyavacana and Adattadana.
7. Read gg for ffy. IX The fourth Anuvrata is explained. It is Brahmacaryam or Kāmavirati.
2. Perhaps ant or better fagi? We have seen a and being mistaken • for each other, as they are very similarly written in Jaina Mss.
5. Read safe and wait together.
9. Read fay and àe separately, 'If one knows that a woman is a Veśya.' वेस भणिवि, Mar. वेश्या म्हणून. Sk. idiom would be वेश्येति कृत्वा.
X. The fifth Anuvrata is explained. It is Aparigraha. All the five are again mentioned for emphasis.
XI. The three Guņavratāni are mentioned and explained. XII. The four Siksapadani are mentained and explained (1) Jiņavandaņam, (2) Posahovavāsa, (3) Dārāvikkhaņu, (4)
Sallehaņa.
SANDHI XVII The story of a Brahmin with his sons Suvakka, Duvakka, daughter Tiveya and her husband. The latter's failure in doing the errand of the King of Kampilya, brings calamity on all.
1. The Prince asks the sage, why the Vidyadhara Manaveya should have helped him. The sage says it was due both to his pious, tranquil character now, and to things done in a former birth.
6. Fw-27 10. # is Insrumental sing. of the pronominal base It is not necessary to compound it with my, as Jacobi's edition does.
