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(24) These stupid beings are being despoiled like caravans by rabbers,
(25) These stupid beings are being broken down like sála trees by a storm,
(26) These stupid beings are being killed like animals. by' fierce poison,
(27) These stupid beings, full of desires, are being cut up, like children, by razors dipped in honey,
(28) These stupid beings are being carried away like wood on a strong current of water,
(29) These stupid beings are playing, like infants, with their own excrement,
(30) These stupid beings are being struck, like elephants, with the goad (ankusa),
(31) These stupid beings are being destroyed like little children by rogues,
(2) These stupid beings are throwing away the root of all good, like wealth gamblers,.
(33) These stupid beings are being eaten up like the merchants by the Ráksinasis.9
Ilaving by (the sound of these thirty-two remarks filled the inner apartments, the Bodhisattva conceived the improprieties of the corporeal form, suppressed the idea of repulsion, produced the idea of abhorrence, reflected on his own age, beheld the wretched condition of the body, perceived that one body proceeded from another, reflected on the idea of welfare, suppressed the idea of misfortune. and from the sole of his foot to une top of his head he examined his body; he found it had arisen from impurity, consisted of impurity, and it continually discharged impurity. At this juncture the following verses were recited :
"The crop of the field of works is nurtured by the water of desire, and is called body. It is disfigured by tears, perspiration, and exudation of urine; pervaded by molecules of od; full of the secretions of the pelvis and the head, of pas, fat, and sanies; daily watered by disense; it is replete with filth, and redolent with repulsive odours of various kinds. (1)
