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...... EMANCIPATION OF PĀRŚVANĀTHA 417 any one because of freedom from attachment.
“ Vīramati has gone," was the gossip among all the people. You reflected, “Surely Yogātman has gone with her." “ Viramati has gone somewhere," was the talk in the palace and you said definitely, “She has gone with Yogātman.” The king said, “He has given up association with his wife, et cetera," and you said, “For that very reason he, a heretic, has taken other men's wives.” On hearing that, the people became lax in religion and on account of that sin the other mendicants expelled Yogātman.
Having acquired in this way sharp, firmly bound karma, 377after death you became a goat in the hamlet Kollaka. Having a putrid tongue from the fault of that karma, after death you became a jackal in a great forest of Kollaka. After the jackal had died from cancer of the tongue, you became the son of Madanalată, a courtesan of the king in Sāketa.378
One day you, a young man, intoxicated, were restrained by a prince when you were insulting the king's mother and you insulted him, also, deeply. He cut off your tongue and you, ashamed, fasted and died. Now you became a Brāhman. The rest of your actions you know already.
After hearing that, having disgust with existence which had been produced, I became a mendicant at the feet of Suguru, eager for obedience to a guru. The magic arts of 'goingthrough-the air' and of 'opening-locks' were given to me by the guru as he was dying and I was instructed earnestly: 'These magic arts must not be invoked in any other calamity except the rescue of a righteous person; and no falsehood must be spoken even in jest. If a falsehood is told through carelessness, you should recite the magic arts one thousand and eight times, standing in water up to the navel, holding the arms erect.'
Devoted to sense-objects I have done the reverse. Yesterday I told a falsehood in front of the habitation in the garden.
377 210. Nikācita. See I, p. 402.
378 212. Pārsva., p. 175, has Yogātman dying from mouth-disease, but this is an error. The text, 8.156, agrees with our account, 53 N
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