Mahanisiha Studies And Edition In Germany

Author(s): Chandrabhal Tripathi
Publisher: Chandrabhal Tripathi

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Chandrabhal Tripathi
20-27. vss. 174-222. Praise of the sincere confession and of all virtues of monks. After the colophon follows the excuse.
Chap.II. Kamma-vivāga-vägaraņa. 209 ślokas with a long prose passage inserted.
1-2. vss.1-28. Description of the suffering of all living beings in the world. Even the gods suffer because they know that their majesty does not last for ever. The types of suffering, their duration and their strength.
3-6. vss.29-99. The killing of a lice as an example of a bad deed, and its results. Murder in general, lying, stealing, unchastity, and joy of possession. Different lower and higher forms of existence as result of bad deeds.
7. vss. 100-109. About karman, its binding force for all beings, except for siddha, jogi and selesi. Its culmination as a sum total of all bad deeds.
8. vss.110-120. The obstruction of the influx of karman, the asceticism, "Leidenschaftslosigkeit" and ultimately mokșa.
9. vss. 121-146. Some do not believe in the wholesomeness of the obstruction of the influx of karman. No being enjoys peace even in sleep as long as all karman is not destroyed through asceticism and self-control. All beings suffer continuously pain and have at no moment peace. To have a lice in hair is a small evil; it does not mean harm. One should, therefore, allow it to move at will, and not incur pains in hell and permanent insteadiness.
10-24. vss. 147-155 as change-over to prose passages. Avoiding of the female, and that too of every woman irrespective of the fact whether she belongs to the order or not, even of female animals. - Prose: Questions of Goyama, answers of the Bhagavat. One should neither think of nor speak, stay or walk with a woman, because a man will be infatuated by a woman, even if she be a nun, by her nature; her mind will be confused by her desire for sexual intercourse, she does not think about the results, her body totters and falls down. This situation is misused by a man. The sexual constitution of a man has six stages. There are also women, who are at the highest stage. In case an average woman does not satisfy her sexual aim, the fire of her desire burns like that of a village, but cools down afterwards like the fire of a torch. If she controls herself, she is praiseworthy and reaches mokşa, otherwise she commits a grave sin and destroys