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to refrain from sensual pleasures. (5) Likewise, he also points out (to the Liberable souls), that the practice of Law as preached by the Best of the Jinas, is the only refuge for souls distressed and afflicted) by sorrows,—the Law which is calculated to enable them to attain Salvation, whose nature is absolute bliss. 16) Just as the merchants had to cross the terrible ocean, similarly (the souls have to cross) the Samsāra ; and the returning home is like the attainment of Salvation (on the part of the souls) here. (7) Just as the one, whose mind was infatuated by (the words of the Deity fell down from the back of the Sailaka Yaks'a, and met his death in the ocean abounding in tbousands of acquatic animals, (8) similarly one, who is made to dance (i.e. is under the sway of; Avirati, and consequently swerves from his code of conduct, falls in this terrible and endless ocean of worldly existence, which abounds in many a beast of prey in the form of sorrows and miseries. (9) Just as the one, who was not moved by the Deity-(i.e. did not give way to her tempting and seducing words),-reached his destination, and consequently) got all the pleasures in life, similarly a monk, whose mind is never excited (by pleasures of senses), attains Nicvāụa (Salvation).
III. Summary of Chapter XVI . I. Nāgas'rī : (The first birth of Draupadi) :
There lived in Campā three learned and rich Brahmin brothers— Soma, Somadatta and Somabbūti- with their wives Nāgas'rī, Bhūtas'rī and Yaks'as'rī respectively. Once they, resolved that every day they should prepare plenty of food etc., and enjoy at each other's houses by turns. Once it happened to be the turn of Nāgas'rī. She prepared plenty of food and a very rich and delicious gourd-preparation. When she tasted it she found that it was very bitter, un. palatable, and had turned into poison. She was very sorry for the waste of so much material, but particularly sbe dreaded the humiliation and mockery at the hands of her
*2 Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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