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BOOK 1, LECTURE 15.
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FIFTEENTH LECTURE,
CALLED
THE YAMAKAS 1
What is past, present, and to come, all this is known to the Leader, the Saviour, who annihilates the hindrances to right faith. (1)
The annihilator of doubt knows the incomparable (Law); he, the expounder of the incomparable (Law), is not inclined towards this or that (heretical doctrine). (2).
On this or that (article of the creed he has) the correct opinion; hence he is rightly called a true (man); he who always possesses the truth, is kind towards his fellow-creatures. (3)
Towards your fellow-creatures be not hostile : that is the Law of him who is rich in control; he who is rich in control renounces everything, and in this (world meditates on the) reflections on life 2. (4)
1 This lecture has been named from its opening words gamaiyam, which also means, consisting of yamakas (compare Journal of the German Oriental Society, vol. xl, p. 101). For in this lecture each verse or line opens with a word repeated from the end of the preceding one. This artifice is technically called srinkhala-yamaka, or chain-yamaka, a term which seems to be contained in another name of our lecture, mentioned by the author of the Niryukti (verse 28), viz. Âdâniya-sankaliya. For sankaliyâ is the Prâkrit for srinkhala (e.g. in our text I, 5, 2, 20), though Silanka here renders it wrongly sankalita; and âdâniya by itself is used as a name of our lecture.
2 These are the twelve bhavanâs or meditations on the vanity of life and the world in general, and on the excellence of the Law, &c.
