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BOOK 2, LECTURE 2.
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conduct described in this) part is not holy, (&c., all as in § 57, down to) thoroughly untrue, and bad.
This is the explanation of the third subject, viz. the mixed state. (60)
Now the explanation of the first subject, viz. demerit, is as follows:
Here in the East, West, North, and South live some men; they are householders, men of great desires, great undertakings, great possessions, unrighteous men, men practising unrighteousness, very unrighteous men, men speaking unrighteously, living unrighteously, thinking unrighteously, given to unrighteousness, men of unrighteous character and conduct, men gaining an unrighteous livelihood. (61)
They beat, cut, pierce, skin, are bloody-handed, violent, cruel, wicked, rash; they habitually practise bribery 2, fraud, deceit, imposture, dishonesty, and trickery; they are of bad character and morals, they are difficult to please, they do not abstain from killing living beings; as long as they live they do not abstain from wrath, (&c., all as in II, 1, 51, down to) the sin of wrong belief; nor from bathing, rubbing, painting, anointing themselves; from sounds, touches, tastes, colours, smells; from wreaths and ornaments; from cars, carriages, vehicles, litters, swings, coach and pair, palankins, beds, seats;
1 These words are in the 2nd person sing. of the imperative, which, according to Pânini III, 4, 2, may be used to express a repeated or habitual action.
2 Utkuйkana.
Gilli, purushadvayôtkshiptâ ghôllikâ.
Thilli, explained: a vehicle drawn by a pair of mules; but, according to Leumann s. v., saddle.
Sîyasandimâniyâ, explained sibikâvisêsha.
