Rasarnavasudhakara 3.491

English (machine translation) 3.491

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3.491

If it is impossible to perform it today, the wealth fully sufficient for that / must be placed in the hem of the garment of this witness, the old woman!"

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(So saying, with open mouth, she dances again.)

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Niṣkacchakīrti: "O vow-holders! What is to be done here?"

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Mithyātīrtha: "Hey, advocate of non-violence! Is it your doctrine that a dying living being is not to be protected?"

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Arūpāmbara (with an objection): "Is it your doctrine that pleasure should be enjoyed by one, while money should be given by another?"

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(Niṣkacchakīrti, with an inward laugh, having tied his own money and the ascetic's money in the hem of the old woman's garment, forcibly places the Jain's bracelet at her feet.)

Madhumallikā (with languid stretches of her limbs, as if recollecting fear)—"Oh! The deity will grow angry due to the delay! So I will go to make an offering to the young girls." (Having taken the bracelet, she exits.)

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In this and similar passages, money is taken by a certain courtesan after enticing the Jain, Buddhist, and Saṃnyāsin through the pretext of spirit possession; thus, this is deception (vipralambha).

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Rasārṇavasudhākara — Siṃhabhūpāla, Sanskrit