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Pure Life (Bambhacerāim)
awakened [and] have obtained the right knowledge:) You, you who are [already] miserable or [just] imprudent!, in accordance with truth I say the following: there is no place to which the face of death would not come;142 led by desires, unrighteous houseless ones cause, once death has gotten hold of them [and] they are embodied in the great heap [of unliberated souls], new birth for themselves. First, all kinds of people express themselves to those who know, then, again, those who know to all kinds of people;
143
Ever so many wandering brothers and monks express each his own differing opinion: 15 "truly, we have seen, heard, considered, understood,"
144
[they say:] "in" [all] directions: upwards, downwards and in our sphere all sides well-scrutinized [and now think]: all lower animals, all plants, all higher beings, all other 20 beings may be beaten, ordered about, strained, controlled [or] killed, and know then, it is not a sin hereby," So speak ignoble ones. But those who are noble have [always] spoken so: "Truly, you have seen, heard, considered, understood evil... have scrutinized 25 evil on all sides, that you so say, so speak, so proclaim, so explain: all lower animals, all plants, all higher beings, all other living beings may be beaten, ordered about, strained, controlled, killed.... So speak ignoble ones. We however say, (88) speak, proclaim, explain the following: no lower animal, no plant, no higher being, no other living being may be beaten, ordered about, strained, controlled, killed.... So speak noble ones." 19,5 With regard to the old agreement we want to ask each and every one: "You opponents,
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141
The Nagarjuniya have: "he preaches truly the teaching to the souls which have become acquainted with the journey through the forms of existence, have human form, shun a violent act, strive for the joy of the termination of suffering, who aspire to listen to the teaching, have laid down the injurious tool, who want to hear, who inquire further [out of thirst for knowledge and] have obtained the right knowledge."
142
Read together with C: nánāgame.
143 Probably another text for this place: "there is no place..." etc.: "Over and over again delusion predominates hereby (some here on earth are familiar everywhere [with all forms of embodiment], they experience effects which one [soul] subjected to re-embodiment must experience them); whoever is made up of evil deeds, changes his life-form; whoever is not made up of evil actions, does not change his life-form." (mohe is taken as a locative; a play on words: cittham tisthan, and ceṣṭām). These sentences contain slokas, not indravajras. (For cittham, cf. Bollée 2002, § 723 (WB).)
144 The reason for the connection: the apparent context.
145 On the basis of Suy. II 1, 24 I no longer regard 18, 21 as a verse.
146
Or, instead of puvvam nikāya samayam with the conspicuous absolute construction, perhaps p° nikayasamayam, namely pucchissamo: "about the old agreement (i.e., teaching and faith) with regard to [re-embodiment into the six] groups of beings [see chapter 1], we want to ask." (For "ordered about" in the previous
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