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The interaction of Sanskrit through Jainism
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Tēvar explains the above through the preaching of the carañan as follows:
toţikk kaiyār roļutu vāļttit tūmaņi nilattu! ērrip poțip punai tukili nikkip pukalnt ați kaliya pinyai ațulla cant akilin aviy ay malar aruccittānār koțuppar ualamirta mūnrir kuņam purint atahkinärkkal
(If the ascetic (comes to his house), the householder will worship him with bands wearing armlet (the ornament 'toți') and praise him. He will make the ascetic sit on the jewelled floor. Then he will wipe the dust on the feet of the ascetic with a fine garment and wash them with water. After that he will worship his feet with sandalwood, aloe, fragrant things and flowers and give him four kinds of food with the three qualities.)3
The cāraṇan also explains the fruits of giving gifts. The gift offered to a holy saint will cause the soul to be born in the land of enjoyment (bhogabhūmi), 4 where it can enjoy all its desires. The gift given to ordinary people will cause the soul to be born in the Karmabhūmi, where the men are expected to live by doing various occupations. The gifts offered to people who had not controlled their five senses will cause the soul to be born in various islands, with human body and animal face.
The seventh stage, the Brahmacarya pratimā, co nes in Civakan's life after he realises the transient nature of the worldly life. Soon after watching the scene where the gardener snatches a jack fruit from a female monkey which got the fruit from its mate, 6 Civakan ponders about the unreal nature of this world. He gives up all his desires and enjoyments. The poet describes this stage of renouncing enjoyments and pleasures as follows:
vēkaimaiy ennu nāvir kāma ventêran manti matci onrānum inri mayankinērk irulai ninkak kattinar tērar avar kalvilakk atanai entu
1õttiyar roțak kappatta cori matak kalirrin mințän?
(Having decided that they (the gardener, the female monkey and the male monkey) must be celestials who showed him the guiding light of renunciation in order that the darkness may be dispelled, the one who was enjoying intemperately the exhilerating drink of Just with the tongue of passion abjuring all good deeds, rejected the enjoyment of pleasures like a rut-flowing intoxicated elephant who has been goaded into the right direction)).
1 Cc. v. 2827. 2 Here, making the ascetic sit on the jewelled floor means to give him a high seat. 3 The three qualities are purity in throught, word and deed. Naccinărkkiniyar, commentary on
Cc. v. 2827. 4 Cc, vv. 2830-2840. 5 Cc. v. 2841 6 Ibid, vv. 2721-2725
7 Cc. v. 2729
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