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SÓTRAKRITÂNGA.
But those beings who practise the thirteenth kind of action, have attained perfection, (&c., all down to) have put, or put, or will put an end to all misery. (84)
Thus a monk who obtains his soul's good and benefit, who guards himself, who (well directs the functions) of his soul, who well exerts himself, who protects himself (from evil), who is careful of himself, who saves himself (from the Samsara), should withhold his soul (from the twelve kinds of committing sins). (85)
Thus I say.
THIRD LECTURE,
CALLED
KNOWLEDGE OF FOOD.
O long-lived (Gambûsvâmin)! I (Sudharman) have heard the following discourse from the Venerable (Mahâvîra). We now come to the Lecture called “Knowledge of Food. The contents of it are as follows:
Here in the East, West, North, and South there are, all in all, in the world four kinds of seed: seeds generated at the top (of the plant), at its root, at its knots, at its stem? According to the seed and place
1 The commentators here give the reading of the Nâgârgunîyas: the growth of seeds of the plants is fivefold, viz. they grow from the top of the plant), its root, its knots, its stem, and its beads;
