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UTTARADHYAYANA.
"If I, for once, shall get rid of these great pains, I shall become a houseless monk, calm, restrained, and ceasing to act. (32)
"While I thought so, I fell asleep, o ruler of men ; and after that night my pains had vanished. (33)
"Then in the morning of the next day I took leave of my relations and became a houseless monk, calm, restrained, and ceasing to act. (34)
“Thus I became the protector of myself and of others besides, of all living beings, whether they move or not. (35)
“My own Self is the river Vaitaranî, my own Self the Sålmali treel; my own Self is the miraculous cow Kanaduh, my own Self the park Nandana. (36)
"My own Self is the doer and undoer of misery and happiness; my own Self, friend and foe, according as I act well or badly. (37)
“But there is still another want of protection, O king ; hear, therefore, O king, attentively with concentrated thoughts, how some easily discouraged men go astray after having adopted the Law of the Nirgranthas ?. (38)
“If an ordained monk, through carelessness, does not strictly keep the great vows, if he does not restrain himself, but desires pleasure, then his fetters will not be completely cut off. (39)
"One who does not pay constant attention to his walking, his speaking, his begging, his receiving and keeping (of things necessary for a monk), and his
1 See above, p. 94.
* The verses 38-53 are apparently a later addition because (1) the subject treated in them is not connected with that of the foregoing part, and (2) they are composed in a different metre.
