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Svayambhūdeva on the anupreksās (Paümacariu 54.5-16)
89 the cremation pile. When a body is soiled with these things, what part of it (then) is pleasant? Nude it is as unsightly as an abandoned house. The buttocks are like the lips of rear. Youth resembles a boil, the head is like a hollow coconut. In such impurity, oh, lord of Lankā, a sun to the world (you) nevertheless still do not (feel] indifference towards Sītā.34
panca-paġārěhĩ dahavaĵaņa
suhu dukkhas jam jema thiya bho surakari-kaca-samkāsa-bhua veŅhijjaï jīu moha-maěhĩ rayaņāyaru jiha sari-vāņiěhĩ ņava-damsaņehi vihĩ veyaņěhĩ caü-vihěhĩ au-parimāņaěhĩ vihî gottěhỉ maüa-samujjalěhĩ chāijjaï chijjar bhijjaï vi pittijjai vajjhaï muñcaï vi
jīvaho dhukkaï pāu
tam bhuñjevaü sāu āsava-aņuvekkha kāí na sua pañcāņaņu jema matta-gačhĩ pañca-vihěhĩ ņāņāvaraņiěhĩ atthāvīsahi vāmohaněhi teņaüi'-paġārehi ņāmačhi pañcahi mi antarāiya-khalěhĩ mārijjaï khajjaï pijjaï vi jantehĩ dalijjaï ruñcas vi
ghattā niya-kamma-vasena
jammaņa-maraņotthaddhaěņa visahevvaü dukkhu
jema gaïndem vaddhačņa Daśavadana, evil approaches a being in five ways. 36 Happiness, sorrows, whatever presents itself as it were, one has to bear it all. Oh, (Rāvana) with arms as the trunks of a celestial elephant, have you not heard the anuprekşā on the influx (of karman]? A being is surrounded by delusion and intoxication, like a lion by rutting elephants, like an ocean by the waters from rivers. There are five types (of karman) which conceal knowledge, nine [types that conceal] insight, two (that arouse] sentiments, 28 [that give rise to] mental confusion, fourfold (forms that determine) life span, 93 types [that determine) individual characteristics, two that [determine) birth, low or high, and five terrible (forms that cause) obstruction. They bring darkness, (cause a being to] be broken, torn, killed eaten, drunk, squashed, murdered, abandoned, crushed by machines and ripped apart. The power of his karman, standing firm form birth to death, makes fa being suffer like a chained elephant.37
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