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The interaction of Sanskrit through Jainism
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(You, the god who destroyed the four ghattya karmas and made the four eternal attributes, infinite knowledge, perception, power and bliss as your limit and saw the past, present and future simultaneously.)
The way in which Caccantan, the father of Civakan, entrusts his kingdom into the hands of Kattiyankaran and as a result meets his end provides Tevar with an opportunity to explain in several places these ideas regarding the influence of karmas the human soul. When Uruttiratattan advises Caccantan not to leave the kingdom in the care of Kattiyaṇkäran the latter says,
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alantu tan konta arun tavam uṭaiya nirärkk alantana pikam ellam avar avarkk arrai na alantana valu nalum atuv enakk uraiyal enran
(For the people who had followed strict penance the amount of pleasures they enjoy and the extension of their life span have been measured even at the time of birth.)
Here he indirectly says that according to the nature of karmas the soul will enjoy pleasures and the extension of its life span. The poet comments on the ignor ance of Caccantan when he did not listen to the advice of his ministers and says that this was the effect of his karmas.
inamam enr uraippinum atam ennän munamākiya panmai mulaitt elalar
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(Though he was advised that his desires were just like the desires in the previous cases [these are explained in the previous verses? he did not consider the danger he would face, as the bad karmas of his previous births were present.)
When Caccantan has to face the war against Kattiyankaran he tries to send Vicayai, his queen, away in the flying machine. She is grieved by the situation. He consoles her saying that everything happens according to karmas.
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catalum pirataranum tam vinaip payettiṇakum ātalum alivum ellam avai porukku iyalpu kantay notalum parivum ellam nunnunarv ismaiy apre
(Death and birth are due to one's own karmas. Creation and destruction are also in the nature of things. Therefore being worried and anxious over them is due to lack of right knowledge.)
He explains to Vicayai, before she leaves in the flying machine, how all human relationships are merely temporary and how the soul has to go through numerous. births till it reaches perfection.
1 Cc. v. 213 2 Ibid, v. 215.
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3 Cc. v. 269.
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