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CHAPTER III, 19.
167 fications! These, O king of kings! attend each and every man, wishing to find some opening !, as a hunter (watches) animals. (Boastful, lustful, haughty, irascible, unsteady:, one who does not protect (those dependent on him), these six sinful acts are performed by sinful men who are not afraid (even) in the midst of great danger 6.] One whose thoughts are (all) about enjoyments, who prospers by injuring (others), who repents of generosity, who is miserly, who is devoid of the power (of knowledge), who esteems the group? (of the senses), who hates his wife these seven, different (from those previously mentioned), are the seven forms of cruelty. Knowledge, truth, self-restraint, sacred learning, freedom from animosity (towards living beings), modesty', endurance 10, freedom from censoriousness, sacrifice, gift, courage", quiescence",– these are the twelve great observances is of a Brahmana. Whoever is not devoid of these twelve can govern this whole world, and those who are
Scil. for attaining to the Brahman. • Some weak point by which they may attack a man. • Fickle in friendship, &c. • Such as a wife, &c.
• Connected with this or the next world, Nflakansha. This and a stanza further on I place witbin brackets, as it is not quite certain whether Sankara's copy had them, though they are now in some of our copies of the text with his commentary. See Introduction. • Cf. Mundaka, p. 319; Khandogya, p. 494.
See note 2, at page 165. • The wife baving no other protector. . See note 4, at page 162. " Of pairs of opposites, such as heat and cold, &c. u Restraint of senscs in presence of their objects. 1 Cl. GILA, pp. 69, 70. " Which are serviceable in attaining the highest goal.
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