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which revolves in the midst of grief and destruction, which is full of actions and instruments of action, which is large, and which is extended by means of attachments', which is rendered unsteady by avarice and desire, which is produced by ignorance of various (matters)', which is attended upon by fear and delusion, and which is the cause of the delusion of all beings, which moves towards joy and pleasure', which has desire and wrath as its appurtenances, which is made up of (the entities) beginning with the Mahat and ending with the gross elements?, which is unchecked, the imperishable source (of all) •, the speed of which is like that of the mind, and which is (never) fatigued. This wheel of life, which is associated with the pairs of opposites, and which is devoid of consciousness, all the world, together with the immortals, should cast away, abridge, and check. That man, among all creatures, who always
" Revolves in the midst of,=lives upon, is fed by, Nilakantha. * I.e. the organs of action, I presume.
· The more attachments one has, the more one is tied down to worldly life, and the more comprehensive such life becomes.
• Avarice is coveling another's wealth when one has one's own; desire is the wish for that which one has not.
• Nilakanila reads vikitra,' which he renders to mean diversified, as being made up of the three qualities, ignorance there being the same thing as Prakriti, which is probably a better sense altosetber than that obtainable from Arguna Misra's reading.
• Which moves by attachment to external pleasures, &c., Nflakanka. See p. 300 supra.
' I.e. all the world developed from Prakritia common phrase.
• This is Nilakantha's forced meaning. But the text here is doubtful. Perhaps the sense is in which production and dissa lution are going on unchecked.'
• See p 344 note. For the last word, the variant here is sthapayet, make steady or stop
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