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SUTRAKRITÂNGA.
Some have been induced to honour them, some have made (their proselytes) to honour them. (18)
Before (entering an order) they were determined to become Sramanas, houseless, poor monks who would have neither sons nor cattle, to eat only what should be given them by others, and to commit no sins. After having entered their order they do not cease (from sins), they themselves commit sins, they cause others to commit sins, and they assent to another's committing sins. Thus they are given to pleasures, amusements, and sensual lust; they are greedy, fettered, passionate, covetous, the slaves of love and hate; therefore they cannot free themselves (from the Circle of Births), nor free anybody else from it, nor free any other of the four kinds of living beings from it. They have left their former occupations, but have not entered the noble path. They cannot return (to worldly life), nor get beyond it; they stick (as it were) in pleasures and amusements. Thus I have treated of the first man (as one who believes that) soul and body are one and the same thing. (19)
Now I shall treat of the second man1 (as one who believes that) everything consists of the five elements.
Here in the East, (&c., see §§ 13, 14, all down to) teach this religion well. (20)
'There are five elements 2 through which we explain
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According to the commentators the Lôkâyatikas or the Sânkhyas are intended. The latter explain the whole world as developed from the Prâkriti or chaos, and contend that the âtman does not act. The Lôkâyatikas deny the separate existence of the âtman, and maintain that the elements are called âtman when they manifest intellect (kaitanya).
2 Mahabbhuya=mahâbhuta.
