Shravakachar of Vasunandini

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5.2
Catalogue of Vices
5
TRANSLATION: ŚR (57-205)
In the yonder world he attains suffering endless times, here he attains suffering in the ocean of mundane existence. He [thus should avoid (the attachment to any woman who is married to somebody else in the three ways.
Examples of the Seven Vices
125-133) Being deprived of his kingdom King Yuddhisthira attained the state of being disgraced because of gambling. He lived twelve years in wilderness.
While enjoying themselves in the outskirt of the city the Yādavas were tortured by thirst, and thinking, "[this is water!", they died after having drunk the dried up (= foul] liquid.
In the town Ekacakra Bakarakṣa who was greedy for eating meat lost his kingdom. Fameless he died and entered the region of hell.
Also the sharp-witted Cārudatta after having spent his property to make love to a courtesan attained suffering and went to a foreign country.
Brahmadatta, although he possessed the best among the fourteen jewels and in spite of his being ruler of the world, died and attained the seventh ground of hell due to his passion for hunting.
Because of the fault of embezzling property entrusted upon him) Sribhūti attained punishment. After he had died while being engaged in harmful thinking he wandered around in the cycle of rebirth and death for a long time.
Though he was the lord of the half-world and the king of the sky-movers the splendid lord of Lanka Rāvana went to the regions of hell after his death because of his rapture of another man's wife (Sitā).
These famous persons attained evil by clinging to each of the vices. But with someone who has the fault of doing again the seven (evil deeds, how is it possible to describe the results of the evil which he attains)?
In Sāketa Rudradatta indulged in all the seven vices. After his death he went to the regions of hell and then moved around again and again in the vast ocean of mundane existence.
• Lamk'-esa In Jain narrative literature Rāvana appears as the eighth