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provocation), sets fire to the cornfields of the householders, &c. (All as in § 44.) (49)
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A man, without consideration, makes a deep cut in the strong limbs of the camels, &c. (All as in § 45.) (50)
A man,. without consideration, covers with brambles and twigs the stables for the camels, &c., and burns them, &c. (All as in § 46.) (51)
A man, without consideration, steals the earrings, &c. (AH as in § 47.) (52)
A man, without consideration, robs Sramanas or Brahmanas of their umbrella, &c. (All as in § 48.) (53)
A man, on seeing Sramanas or Brahmanas (whom he detests), degrades himself by various evil deeds. Either he gives them a slap with the open hand to turn them away 1, or he abuses them. And when the monk at the proper time calls (at his house on the begging-tour), he does not give him alms (but says): those who become Sramanas are the meanest workmen, men unable to support (their family), low-caste men, wretches, idlers! (54)
Such men praise this life, this miserable life; they do nothing on behalf of the next world; they suffer, grieve, blame themselves, grow feeble, are afflicted, and undergo great pain; they do not cease to cause others to suffer, grieve, &c., to slay and to put men in fetters; and while they make suffer or kill, or make suffer and kill (beings), and do various evil
1 Akkharâê apphâlettâ bhavai apsarâyâs kaputikâyâs asphâlayitâ bhavati. I am not sure that I have hit the meaning; apsarâ is perhaps derived from apa sârayati, the word is wanting in our dictionaries.
