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tray as you are on the road ? Qaqadhara Gautama:-They all are known to me, those who are in the right path and those who have chosen a wrong path; therefore I do not go astray O Sagel Kési Sramana:-What do you call the path ? Canadhara Gautama:-The heterodox and the heretics have all chosen a wrong path; the right path is that taught by the Jinas; it is the most excellent path
Cantama etc
Kesi Sramana:-Is there a shelter, a refuge, a firm ground for the beings carried by the great flood of water? Do you know the island, O Gautama ?
Canadhara Gautama:-There is a large great island in the midst of water, which is not innudated by the great flood
Kell Sramana:-What do you call this island?
Canadhara Gautama:-The flood is old age and death, which carry away living beings; Dharma is the island, the firm ground the refuge, the most excellent shelter.
Gautama etc.
Kasi śramaņa:-On the ocean with its many currents, there drifts a boat; how will you, Gautama, on board of it, reach the opposite shore ?
दीसंति बहवे लोए पासबदा सरीरिणो । सकपासो लहुन्भूओ कहत विहरसी मुणी ? ॥ ४० ॥ ते पासे सचसो छित्ता निहतूण उपायो । मुक्कपासो लहुन्भूओ विहरामि अहं मुणी ॥ ४१ ॥ पासाय इह के वुत्ता ? केसी गोयममब्बवी। केसि एवं बुवंत तु गोयमो इणमब्बवी ॥ ४२ ॥ रागदोसाओ तिव्वा नेहपासा भयंकरा । ते छिदिस जहाणाय, विहरामि जहकम ॥४३॥
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