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mented or deprived of life, will in the time to come1 suffer cutting or piercing, will experience birth, old age, death, conception in the womb, the Circle of Births, regeneration, existence as a foetus, the whole scale of mundane existences, and suffer a variety of pains 2. (80)
They will many times undergo punishment, pulling out of the hair, threatening, putting in irons, (&c., similar as in § 63, all down to) whirling round; (they will witness) the death of their mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, and daughters-inlaw; (they will experience) poverty, bad luck, company of hated people, separation from those whom they love, misery, and despair; they will again and again wander about in the beginningless and endless, immense wilderness of the fourfold Samsâra. They will not reach perfection, (&c., all down to) not put an end to all misery.-This is a maxim of general application, (&c., all down to) holds good with regard to every (living being). (81)
But those Sramanas and Brahmanas who that say all sorts of living beings should not be beaten, &c., will in the time to come not suffer cutting, &c. They will not undergo many punishments, (&c., all just the reverse of what has been said in §§ 80, 81, down to) put an end to all misery. (82)
BOOK 2, LECTURE 2.
Thus those beings who practise the first twelve kinds of actions 3, have not attained perfection, (&c., all down to) have not, nor do, nor will put an end to all misery. (83)
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Described in §§ 5-21. See p. 365, note 3.
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2 Kalankalîbhâva.
