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SOTRAKRITÂNGA.
THIRTEENTH LECTURE,
CALLED
THE REAL TRUTH.
I shall now expound, in accordance with truth, the various qualities of men; I shall explain the virtue and peace of the good, the vices and the unrest of the wicked. (1)
Having learned the Law from men who exert themselves day and night, from the Tathagatas ?, they neglect the conduct in which they had been instructed, and speak rudely to their teacher. (2)
Those who explain the pure doctrine according to their individual opinion, falsify it in repeating (it after their teachers); those who speak untruth from pride of knowledge, are not capable of many virtues. (3)
Those who on being questioned conceal the truth, defraud themselves of the real good. These bad men who believe themselves good and are full of deceit, will go to endless punishment. (4)
He who is of a wrathful disposition and calls everything by its true name?, who renews a composed quarrel, will, like a blind man groping his way with
1 According to the commentators, Gaina teachers, inclusive of the schismatical ones, are intended. Tathagata is a synonym of Tîrthakara and Buddha; but it is less frequently used by the Gainas than by the Bauddhas with whom it is of very common occurrence.
2 Gagatthabhâsî = gagadarthabhâshin. Silânka proposes also ga gârthabhâshin, who speaks dogmatically.
