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10 Pajjantam étto jampiéņa jai Kämlyāim sokkhāim
Bbottum vănchaha tā vīyarăya-vayaņé semujjamaha 10.
1. This life is fickie like the drop of water attached to the end of kusa (a kind of grass considered holy and forming an essential requisite of several religious ceremonies) set in motion by sharp wind; and the strength of (this) body melts away at every moment like the transient arrow of the king of the gods.
2. Love also is unsteady like the wave on the river falling down from the top of a high mountain and wealth desirous of abrupt abandoning seeks out devices of escape,
3-4 Misfortunes capable of evidently manifesting fearful disorders, always invade the body like the churning of a great ocean. Pleasures of sense also, treated by gems, incantations magic and divine medicines, constantly give pain when enjoyed, like the poison-creeper.
5. The sins, which people bewildered by MithyitveMahaniya, ( infatuation by mithyātya-false belief) do not leave them, like an enemy, for a series of hundreds of bhavas (existences.)
6 Dear son, wife, and others for whom every one does evil deeds very often, they even-do not afford any protection for a journey to the next world.
7. Therefore, O wise men! so long as old age resembling an adamantine hammer has not overcome you, you passionately practise Jina Dharma (the dharma propagated by Jinesvaras ) ovory day.
8.-9. But with the advent of it (old age) you, by moving wllfully, by cousing fear to other persons and by becoming berest of means of attaining Moksa, will try to remember your former happiness, and will be afflicted for a long time like a bird with his wings cut off or a snake with his teeth removed, or like a king having his kingdom taken away from him.
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