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SÚTRAKRITÂNGA.
practising righteousness, (&c., all as in § 69, down to) men gaining a righteous livelihood. They are of good character and morals, easy to please, and good. They abstain, as long as they live, from one kind of killing living beings, but they do not abstain from another, (&c., similar as in § 62, all down to) whatever suchlike wicked actions there be, that cause pains to other beings, from some of them these men abstain as long as they live, from others they do not abstain. (75)
There are, for instance, followers of the Sramanas, who comprehend (the doctrine about) living beings and things without life, who understand (the difference between) virtues and sins, who are well grounded in (the knowledge of) the Asravas, Samvara, the realisation and annihilation (of Karman), the subject of actions?, bondage, and final liberation ; who, without anybody to back them?, cannot be seduced from the creed of the Nirgranthas by hosts of gods, Asuras, Nâgas, Suvarnas, Yakshas, Râkshasas, Kinnaras, Kimpurushas, Garudas, and snake-gods; who have no doubts, scruples, or misgivings about this creed of the Nirgranthas, but have grasped its meaning, got hold of its meaning, got information about its meaning, ascertained its
1 Silanka says with regard to $ 76: The MSS. of the text generally differ from one another in this passage; the text commented upon in the Tîkâ does not agree with that of any MS. I therefore comment upon the text exhibited in one MS. If, therefore, my text does not agree with that (of the reader) he should not be alarmed. All the MSS. I use have the same text, that of the commentator. It is characteristic of the way in which Harshakula, the author of the Dinika, worked, that he copies Silânka's above remark with some verbal alterations. 2 Kriyâdhikarana.
* Asahiya.
