Sambodhi 2002 Vol 25

Author(s): Jitendra B Shah, N M Kansara
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Page 87

RAMKRISHNA BHATTACHARYA
SAMBODHI
6c. Who makes the sharpness of the thorns and the variety of the animals, birds etc.? (It is) natural development (that does so), all is natural development.
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(Do)
7. Of the many thorns of a jujube tree, one is sharp, another is straight, yet another is crooked. But its fruit is round. Say, who has made all this? 8. The fire is hot, the water cold, refreshing and cool the breeze of morn; By whom came this variety? From their own nature was it born.
(Trans. E. B. Cowell)
(The verse in SSS: "The heat of fire, the cold of water, the sweet sound of the cuckoos, and such other things happen to be (due to) the invariable nature (of those things), and (they) are not anything else."
(Trans. M. Rangacarya)
9. What is the cause of the shape, the colour, the arrangement, the softness and so on of the stalks, the petals, the filaments and the pericarps of the lotuses? Who diversifies the feathers of the birds in this world? In just the same manner this whole universe is the product of the work of essential and inherent properties, to be sure.
(Trans. J. S. Speyer)
10. That which made the swans white and the parrots green, and coloured the peacock will provide for us.
(Trans. mine)
11. Who embellishes the eyes of the female deers, who decorates the bright plumes of the peacocks, who arranges the petals in the lotuses, and who provides modesty (lit. good conduct) to the nobly-born man ?
(Do)
12. All those that have come forth are due to natural development; they cease to exist due to natural development. He who sees himself not as the agent of things sees (rightly).
(Do)
13. Who colours the peacock, who provides the swans with (their) gait, who (provides) scent to the lotuses and modesty (lit. good conduct) to the nobly-born ladies?
(Do)