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(228) Lastly, there arises the notion that there can be
no enjoyment of things without the cruel V. Uttamamla
"process of killing animals; and contentment due to the abstinence arısıng from this perception of cruelty of the process, is the fifth one, called 'Uttamāmbha'.
Thus the five external forms of Contentment, along with the four internal ones, make up the nine forms mentioned above.
(229) The author next describes the primary and secondary forms of success:
Kärikā LI The eight forms of success are--(1) reasoning.
(2) oral instruction, (3) study, (4-6) The eight powers three-fold suppression of pain, (7) acqui. sition of friends, and (8) purity. The three before-mentioned are checks to success.
(230) The most important 'Success' among those enumerated above is the three-fold suppression of pain--three fold, on account of the three kinds of the pains to be suppressed.
The other successes ' mentioned are only the means to said suppression of pain, and as such are regarded as secondary in relation to it. And these five are both causes and effects ; e. g., of these study is only a cause ; those of the more important kınd are only effects ; while the rest, of the middle class are both cause and effect. (231) The first study consists in reading in due form
with the teacher, of the philosophical texts; (1) Tara
this is also called 'Tāra'..
