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IOO
UTTARADHYAYANA.
TWENTIETH LECTURE.
THE GREAT DUTY OF THE NIRGRANTHAS. Piously adoring the perfected and the restrained saints, listen to my true instruction which (teaches the real) profit (of men), religion, and liberation? (1)
King Srênika ?, the ruler of Magadha, who possessed many precious things, once made a pleasureexcursion to the Mandikukshi Kaitya 3. (2)
It was a park like Nandana 4, with trees and creepers of many kinds, peopled by various birds, and full of various flowers. (3)
There he saw a restrained and concentrated saint sitting below a tree, who looked delicate and accustomed to comfort. (4)
When the king saw his figure, his astonishment at that ascetic's figure was very great and unequalled. (5)
O his colour, O his figure, O the loveliness of the noble man, O his tranquillity, O his perfection, O his disregard for pleasures !' (6)
Atthadham magaim = arthadharmagati. I think this equal to artha dharma môksha, though the commentators offer a different explanation by making gati mean gñâna. The phrase is derived from the typical expression kâ mârthadharma mô ksha by leaving out kâma, which of course could not be admitted by ascetics.
? He is identical with Bimbisâra of the Buddhists; see my edition of the Kalpa Sûtra, introduction, p. 2."
: The following verses prove that kaitya denotes park here as the word is explained by the scholiast in IX, 9.
Nandana is Indra's park.
