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BOOK 2, LECTURE I.
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but is bound up in water : so all things, (&c., all as above). (26)
And the twelve Angas, the Canon of the Ganins", which has been taught, produced, and declared by the Sramanas, the Nirgranthas, viz. the Âkârânga (all down to) the Drishtivâda, is wrong, not truē, not a representation of the truth; but this (our doctrine) is correct, is true, is a representation of the truth.
The (heretics in question) make this assertion, they uphold this. assertion, they (try to) establish this assertion.
Therefore they cannot get out of the misery produced by this (error), even as a bird cannot get out of its cage. (27)
These (heretics) cannot inform you, (&c., see $$ 1619, all down to) they stick, as it were, in pleasures and amusements.
Thus I have treated of the third man (who believes that) the Self is the cause of everything. (28)
Now I shall treat of the fourth man who believes that Fate is the cause of everything.
Here in the East, (&c., see $12, 13, all down to) teach this religion well. (29)
*There are two (kinds of men. One man admits action, another man does not admit action. Both men, he who admits, action, and he who does not admit action, are alike, their case is the same, because they are actuated by the same force?. (30)
1 Ganipidaga.
2 Viz. Fate. For it is their destiny to entertain one belief or the other, and they are not amenable to it. This is the interpretation of the commentators. But to the phrase kâranam âpanna they give here a meaning different from that in the following paragraphs. I therefore propose the following translation of the end of the
