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often mentioned as an instrument of torture, especially for adulterers. See Kirfel. That a man who interferes with the wife of his guru becomes a plant, is related in other texts too : cp. Ab. V.36 ( see also note 7).
7-8. Cp. BeFi XVIII.45 'tāditā bhagini yena pāpas tasya bhavisyati / pāņdurogo bhaven mrtyur jvaradāhaḥ sudāruņaḥ//'.
10. Cp. V.P. CCIII.16. 13. Our interpretation is supported by Si XIII.26, 9. v.
19. dhana has probably been substituted for an original dāna ‘corn', 'cereals' : cp. Ab. V.12 and the texts mentioned there, as well as Garuda-Purāņa CCXVII.18; Mārkandeya-Purāņa XV.9.
25. tikāja māro goha-rāro pāvai, i.e., 'this very woman gets a destruction in the manner of a lizard', i.e. she is crushed under foot as a lizard. Cp. Ab. V.27.
31. he gets the fate of a stone' (or : of a rock ). Cp. Ab. IV.60-61.
32. ‘he who takes for himself what he has given’, cp. Ab. V.46.
35. Cp. Ab. V.9. Chapter XIV
Agreeing, in general, with BeFi XIII ( and XIV). • 3. BeFI XIII.1f.
dharmişthānaṁ pravaksyāmi śrüyatām dvijasttamā/ ghệtakṣīrāņi miștānnaṁ kşaudrakhandodakāni ca // pakvānnarāśayas tatra yathestāśca’nnarāśayaḥ/ kauśeyam tu varas vastram bhūşaņābharaṇāni ca II.
The five rivers of Si remind us of five of the seven liquids of the seven ring-shaped oceans surrounding Jambūdvīpa, salt-water and alcohol being of course omitted.
14. rita dāṁna de : cp. BeFi XIII, 11 stukālābhigāmi ca'.
15. parca agana sājhai : cp. BeFi XIII.18 ‘pañcāgnisevino viprah'.
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