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selves, those pious men practise control, and some become heroes through their knowledge. (17)
He regards small beings and large beings, the whole world as equal to himself; he comprehends the immense world, and being awakened he controls himself among the careless. (18)
Those who have learned (the truth) by themselves or from others, are able (to save) themselves and others. One should always honour a man, who is like a light and makes manifest the Law after having well considered it. (19)
He who knows himself and the world; who knows where (the creatures) go, and whence they will not return; who knows what is eternal, and what is transient; birth and death, and the future existences of men; (20)
He who knows the tortures of beings below (i. e. in hell); who knows the influx of sin and its stoppage1; who knows misery and its annihilation,— he is entitled to expound the Kriyâvâda 2, (21)
Being not attached to sounds and colours, indifferent to tastes and smells, not desiring life nor death, guarded by control, and exempt from the Circle (of Births). (22)
Thus I say.
BOOK I, LECTURE 12.
1 Asrava and samvara.
2 It is evident that the Gainas considered themselves Kriyâvâdins.
I had overlooked this passage when penning the note on p. 83.
