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In this way all (these) professors of the Law gradually obtained enlightenment, being frightened by birth and death, and seeking for the end of misery. (51)
LECTURE XV.
Their doubts about the true doctrine were dispersed, and they realised the Bhâvanâs'; in a short time they reached the end of misery. (52)
The king and the queen, the Brahmanical Purôhita, his wife, and his sons, they all reached perfection. (53)
Thus I say.
FIFTEENTH LECTURE.
THE TRUE MONK 2.
He who adopts the Law in the intention to live as a monk, should live in company (with other monks), upright, and free from desire; he should abandon his former connections, and not longing for pleasures, he should wander about as an unknown beggar: then he is a true monk. (1)
Free from love he should live, a model of
1 The bhâvanâs are certain meditations which are conducive to the purity of the soul. They are treated at length in a work by Hêmakandra, called Bhavabhâvanâ, which seems to be rather popular with the Svêtâmbaras. The Digambaras seem to call them Anuprêkshâs. A work in Prâkrit by Subhakandra, called Kârttikêyânuprêkshâ, is epitomised in Bhandarkar's Report for 1883-84, p. 113 ff.
2 The name of this lecture, sa bhikkhû, is derived from the burden which runs through the whole of it and winds up every
verse.
