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emotion, sportiveness, and gait.212 Monied men, after deceiving (others) by false oaths and after making false cowries 213 are deceived by gamblers. Husband and wife, fathers, sons, full brothers and sisters, one's own friends, masters, servants, and others, too, defraud each other by deceit. Greedy for money, pitiless, robbers and thieves, day and night the watchful men trick the careless ones. The artisans and the low castes, living as a result of their own work, defraud the good man by false oaths through deceit.
Those living in inferior birth-nuclei, Vyantaras, et cetera, having observed them generally negligent, cruelly injure wretched men by numerous tricks. The sea-animals, fish, et cetera, devour their own offspring through trickery; they in turn are injured by fishermen holding nets deceitfully. Creatures on land, foolish, are bound and destroyed by various devices by hunters full of deceit. Birds of many kinds, pitiable partridges, et cetera, are injured by deceit by cruel persons eager for a little food. So, in the whole world persons devoted to deceiving others deceive themselves, and destroy their own dharma and good condition of existence. Deceit, the best seed for producing animalbirths, a bar to the city of emancipation, a forest-fire to the tree of confidence, must be abandoned by the wise. Mallinatha will be born as a woman, because she practiced very slight deceit in a former birth, as she had not removed the arrow of deceit.
Sincerity (299-311)
One should subdue deceit which causes injury to people like a serpent by the powerful herb sincerity, the source of joy to the world. Sincerity is celebrated as the
212 287. For hava and bhava, see Sahityadarpana 3. 93-94 and Dasarupa 2. 48-51: 'Emotion (häva) is ardent love which produces a change in eyes and brows.' 'Feeling (bhava) is the first touch of emotion in a nature that was previously unaffected.' Lila (sportiveness) is 'imitation of a lover in the actions of a fair-limbed maiden.' Dasarupa 2. 60.
218 288. Counterfeit money.
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