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SUTRAKRITÂNGA.
3. Hyacinth, natron, Anka, crystal, Lôhitâksha, emerald, Masaragalla, Bhugamôkaka, and sapphire ;
4. Kandana, red chalk, Hamsagarbha, Pulaka, and sulphur; Kandraprabha, lapis lazuli, Galakânta, and Sûryakânta.
These beings feed on the humours of these manifold movable and immovable beings. (The rest as above.)
The remaining three paragraphs are similar (to those treating of) water-bodies. (36)
And again it has been said of old : all sorts of living beings, of manifold birth, origin, and growth, born in bodies, originated in bodies, grown in bodies, feeding on bodies, experience their Karman, are actuated by it, have their form and duration of life determined by Karman, and undergo changes through the influence of Karman. This you should know, and knowing it you will be careful and circumspect with regard to your food, and always exert yourself. (37)
Thus I say.
FOURTH LECTURE,
CALLED
RENUNCIATION OF ACTIVITY.
O long-lived (Gambûsvâmin)! I (Sudharman) have heard the following Discourse from the Venerable (Mahâvîra). We now come to the Lecture called “Renunciation of Activity. The contents of it are as follows:
