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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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VAJJĀLAGGAM
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51) A wicked person, who creates dissersion between friends intimate like the finger-rail and the fob cut of which it grows, who has a double face (CASES = CITE 3 who is double-tongued) who is capable of splitting up (those who are joined together in friendship) (or who is capable of robbing money (f = 311a = 794) (or who is capable of disappointing poor suppliants (siffu = 3114) and who is crooked (narrow) in mind (9** Barat stain: 741), is like a nail-paring instrument (nail.cutter), which separates the fingernail from the flesh in which it is embedded, which has two sharp edges (दुम्महओ= दोमुहओ), which is capable of cutting even a bone (34f4 = 39f44) (or bony cartilages, the nail being a bony growth) andi which is narrow (tapering) in the middle (775.71924 = Hall2623 = #4977)-bow down to him !
52) The two-faced wicked person born in a base family is sweet (pleasing) in his utterances. only so long as the food given to him is in his mouth: but the moment the food is digested, he begins to talk harshly just as a iuraja(a longish tabour plaved at once on the both its sides), possessed of tin mouths ard not touching (or resting on) the earth (97-3-6) (but always placed on a wooden stand or held by the player on his knees or suspended from the neck), produces sweet sounds only so long as the lumps of wheat-four rest on its mouths, but the moment the lumps of of wheat-flour are worn off (or peel off), it begins to produce bad (jarring) sounds.
53) The wicked person devoid of piety (feat) and virtues (Tuesit) and overpowered by greed (Zariyat = Haiya: or arata:) as soon as he is separated (removed) from the place (he was occupying (GREJET), strikes the heart of others and pierces it, like an arrow made of steel (T&TT3T1 = Mema:), which when discharged from a bow Post), detached from the bow-string (Entfeat) and let loose (released) by the archer) under a particular posture of the body (TTTET), strikes the heart of the victim and pierces it.
54) What has never happened in our life-time so far, nor will ever happen even in a hundred thousand future lives- even that is described by the wicked just in such a way as to produce the illusion of verisimilitude (reality).
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