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of streams falling down from rugged tops of high mountains, lovely with the melody of music of sportive kinnara pairs, and charining with spacious, thickets accompanied by Kanakacūda. When Sūrasena Kumāra was thus wandering with his eyes expanded by eagerness, he saw a strolling ascetic standing on a stone-slab with the burden of his entire body supported on leg only with both his arms raist d high, with his steady eyes firmly fixed in contemplation towards the disc of the hot Sun, and remaining in meditation. Becoming thrilled with excessive joy arising in his mind inimediately on seeing him, the Kumāra toid Kanakacüda :- O worthy man! Let us go, to this pious mau, and having respectfully saluted him, let us be free from sin, and let us purify our soul. The Vidyādhara said " Well, let us go." Approaching the ascetic, both of them respectfully bowed down before him. The muni ( ascetic) knowing them to be fit persone, Decame free from meditation, and taking his seat at a buttabie place and thinking that both of them were on the first stage of spirituai development, began his preaching thus :
Worthy Persons. ! If the religious doctrines taught by the compassionate Tirthankara3 be practised in all their details, They are the wvost vaj jable in this worthless samsara. Abstention from injury to living things is the essence of these teachings aud it results from avoidance of meat-diet, wine, and nightly meals.
Out of these, wine is forbidden to be drunk by excellent persons, it deserves to be abandoned at a distance like a sorbi. dden drink. There should be no desire for it even mentally. By drinking wine there is loss of wealth; excellent manners disappear; insanity becomes manifest; disappointment takes place; good actions are destroyed; one's own vulnerable points are bro. ught to light; friends are ashamed; the diffusion of infellect is hindered; family is defamed; pure celibacy is ruined, and succession of enmity is facilitated. Indulgence in wine produces an interruption in meritorious deeds, contracts friendship with low persons, causes sexual intercourse with persons who should not be cohabited, prnduces a desire for articles of food which is
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