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GANADHARVA 5
(1770) Sudharman, hearing that they had become monks, came to the Jina (thinking) 'I shall go, bow down to him and wait upon him.
(1771) The Jina who was free from birth, old age, death and was all-knowing and all-seeing, accosted him (Sudharman) by his name and gotra.
SUDHARMAN
(1772) You are thinking as to whether one will be in another life also as he is in this life. You do not know the meaning of the words of the Veda. This is what they
mean.
(1773) You believe that the effect is similar to the cause, as the sprout is to the seed. It is not proper (or right) that (on the basis of this) you know everything in the other worldly life as similar to that in this.
*(1774) Śara springs out of Śriga, and Bhutṛṇaka springs out of it if it is besmeared with sarsapa (mustard). Durva grass is produced out of the conjunction of the hair of kine and the hair of sheep (i. e. wool).
(1775) As thus in the science pertaining to Medicine of Trees (Botany) and pertaining to Yoni (source of birth) (Biology) birth is observed from dissimilar things, therefore, O Sudharman, this rule (like cause, like effect) is not absolute.
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(1776) Or even as it is accepted that the effect is like the cause, even so know the soul to be of different modification from one life to another.
Sara Śriga
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-a sort of reed or grass, Saccharum Sara. - a kind of medicinal or poisonous plant. Bhütṛṇa -a species of grass.
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