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XXXII. The Lord Mahavira is the only Saviour
169 by the three tests called 'scraping', 'cutting' and 'heating', it never fails of attaining the fruit. What is of this character is unerring'. Whoso's statement, teaching, is such, he is of unerring statement', of unfailing utterance. This is the meaning. And how the utterance of the supreme Lord never incurs error has been shown in various places in the establishment of the Quodammodo doctrine. And the own - form of 'scraping', etc., is thus proclaimed by divines -
"What is stoppage of sinful conditions, taking life, etc.,
And what is rule of meditation, study, etc., is religious (dharma-) 'scraping' (kasa). And that external occupation whereby no harm is done and through restriction wherein One can become purified; that again is in dharma 'cutting' (cheda). (242) Doctrine of status of soul, etc., which calorifies bondage, etc., is here 'heat' (tāpa). By these purified, dharma attains to the state of dharma" ").
For the authorities of other sects have not doctrines purified by the triad of tests before us; so that they are capable of making the world fall into the blind gloom of the great delusion, not, on the other hand, of uplifting it. Hence, for reason; for what reason? Because of the mark of an unshared capacity for uplifting the world fallen within the gloom - ocean of bad views. O Saviour! skilled in rescuing the three worlds! To Thee, because by accent a restriction is understood, 'only to Thee', as recipient, not to another divinity. The thoughtful (kṛta-dhi): the root kar is here used in the sense of cleansing (parikarma), as in 'do hands, do feet'; 'is done' (krta), meaning 'cleansed' (parikarmita). Those whose thought (dhi, intelligence) has been perfected (samskṛta) by advancement in the study of such and such treatises, apt for the teaching of truth, are 'thoughtful', become intelligence (cid-rupā). Render service (kṛtasa parya): since even without pra-, etc., the initial doing (adi-karman) is understood, 'render' is 'begun to render' (kartum-arabdha); 'service', attendance, those who have rendered thus service, they practise towards only Thee, with abandonment of others to be conciliated, a being professors of attendance. So the meaning of the verse adorned by the Sikharini metre').
Here ends the commentary on the Laudation '32 verses of abolition (rescission) of other systems'.
3) From Haribhadra's Pañca-vastuka, IV. 1-3 (M. L.).
4) Named because different from the metre of the rest of the Hymn: change of metre in a terminal verse
is a familiar expedient in Sanskrit, as in other, literature.
