Panhavagarana 1.4: Adhyayana 4: abrahma

O Jambū! The fourth is unchastity—longed for by the world of gods, humans, and asuras; like mud, moss, a snare, and a net; bearing the marks of female, male, and hermaphrodite sexual feelings; an obstacle to penance, self-control, and celibacy; an abode of ruin, the root of much negligence; practiced by cowards and contemptible men, shunned by virtuous people; established in the three worlds—above, hell, and the animal realm; full of old age, death, disease, and sorrow; fraught with slaughter, binding, and destruction that are hard to ward off; the cause of delusion of insight and conduct; long-familiar, persistent, and ending in misery. [This is] the fourth door of unrighteousness.

And these are its thirty descriptive names, namely: 1. unchastity, 2. sexual intercourse, 3. indulging, 4. association, 5. practice of service, 6. lustful thought, 7. source of torment, 8. pride, 9. delusion, 10. mental agitation, 11. non-restraint, 12. discord, 13. obstruction, 14. rupture, 15. error, 16. unrighteousness, 17. lack of virtue, 18. addiction to vulgar conduct, 19. sexual pleasure, 20. passion, 21. destroyer of sensual pleasures, 22. hostility, 23. secret, 24. concealed, 25. high regard, 26. obstacle to celibacy, 27. calamity, 28. violation, 29. attachment, 30. strand of sensual desire. Moreover, these and the like are its thirty designations.

And furthermore, the hosts of gods together with apsarases, their minds infatuated with delusion, indulge in it: the Asura, Pannaga, Garuḍa, Vijju, Jalaṇa, Dīva, Udahi, Disā, Pavaṇa, and Thaṇiyakumāra gods; the Aṇapaṇṇiya, Paṇapaṇṇiya, Isivādiya, Bhūyavādiya, Kaṃdiya, Mahākaṃdiya, Kūhaṃḍa, and Pataga gods; the Piśāca, Bhūta, Yakṣa, Rākṣasa, Kinnara, Kiṃpuruṣa, Mahoraga, and Gandharva gods; the animals, stellar deities, and vimāna-dwelling gods; and hosts of humans, water-dwellers, land-dwellers, and sky-dwellers—their minds bound by delusion, unsated, thirsting for sensual pleasures; overcome by powerful, immense craving, covetous and exceedingly infatuated, sunk in unchastity, not free from dark states of mind, indulging in one another as if building a cage of delusion of worldview and conduct.
Moreover, chakravartins—devoted to sport and delight in the pleasures of Asuras, gods, animals, and humans; honored by lords of gods and men like the best of gods in heaven; who have enjoyed the earth bounded by the oceans under a single umbrella, tranquil and well-settled, adorned with thousands of mountains, cities, towns, regions, capitals, ports, isolated villages, hamlets, poor settlements, and commercial centers of Bharaha; lions among men, lords of men, kings of men, bulls among men, equal to supreme beings, blazing exceedingly with the splendor of royal majesty, gentle, the ornaments of royal dynasties;
bearing the auspicious and supreme distinguished marks of great men: the sun, the moon, the conch, the excellent wheel, the svastika, the banner, the barley corn, the fish, the tortoise, the excellent chariot, the female organ, the mansion, the celestial car, the horse, the archway, the city gate, the jewel, the gem, the nandyāvarta, the pestle, the plow, the well-formed wish-granting tree, the lion, the royal seat, the pleasing mark, the stūpa, the excellent crown, the garland, the earring, the elephant, the excellent bull, the island, the palace, the Garuḍa banner, the Indra banner, the mirror, the gaming board, the bow, the arrow, the lunar mansion, the cloud, the girdle, the lute, the yoke, the umbrella, the garland, the lightning, the water pot, the lotus, the bell, the excellent ship, the needle, the ocean, the white water-lily bed, the makara, the necklace, the pitcher, the anklet, the mountain, the city, the thunderbolt, the Kinnara, the peacock, the excellent royal swan, the crane, the cakora bird, the pair of cakravāka birds, the flywhisk, the shield, the parasol, the lute, the excellent fan, the anointing of Lakṣmī, the earth, the sword, the goad, the stainless vessel, the golden vase, and the vardhamānaka auspicious vessel;
whose path is followed by thirty-two thousand excellent kings; beloved to the eyes of sixty-four thousand supreme young women; possessing a reddish radiance, lotus-like eyelashes, chaplets of kuraṇṭaka, campaka, and the color of refined and tested gold; well-formed with beautiful limbs all over; their bodies adorned with variegated, costly bark cloths produced in excellent cities, fine silk made of spotted deer skin, Chinese silk, and girdles; their heads laden with excellent fragrant perfumes, fine powdered scents, and supreme flowers; their bodies adorned with auspicious garlands skillfully fashioned by clever masters, bracelets, armlets, wristlets, and supreme ornaments; their chests handsomely decorated with a single-stringed pearl necklace; their upper garments of well-fashioned cloths hanging down low; their fingers yellow with signet rings; shining brilliantly in radiant garments, blazing like the sun in majesty; with a sweet, deep, and smooth voice like autumn thunder; endowed with the emergence of all the jewels, headed by the wheel-jewel; lords of the nine treasures, with abundant treasuries; rulers of the four quarters, whose march is accompanied by fourfold armies; lords of horses, elephants, chariots, and men; of renowned fame from noble lineages; with gentle faces like the full autumn moon; brave, whose renowned might has spread through the three worlds; sovereign kings of the whole of Bharaha; having enjoyed Bharahavāsa with its mountains, forests, and woods, extending to the Himavat and the oceans; conquerors of enemies, supreme lions among kings; resting in the accumulated happiness achieved by the power of their formerly performed austerities; possessing spans of life lasting many hundreds of years; pampered by their wives who are the foremost in the realm; having experienced peerless sound, touch, taste, form, and smell—even they succumb to the law of death, unsated with desires.
Moreover, Baladevas and Vāsudevas, supreme men, endowed with great strength and prowess, skilled with mighty bows, oceans of great fortitude, unassailable archers, bulls among men, the brothers Rāma and Keśava with their retinues; dear to the hearts of the Daśārhas headed by Vasudeva and Samudravijaya, and of the Yādavas headed by Pradyumna, Pratīpa, Sāmba, Aniruddha, Niṣadha, Ulmuka, Sāraṇa, Gaja, Sumukha, and Durmukha, and of three and a half crores of young princes; bringing delight and happiness to the hearts of Queen Rohiṇī and Queen Devakī; whose path is followed by sixteen thousand excellent kings; beloved to the eyes and hearts of sixteen thousand excellent queens; with treasuries opulent in heaps of riches and grains, various gems, gold, jewels, pearls, and coral; masters of thousands of horses, elephants, and chariots; lords of half of Bharaha divided by the southern range of Mount Veyaddha, surrounded by the Lavaṇa Ocean, endowed with the sixfold succession of seasons, tranquil, peaceful, and populated by joyful people in thousands of villages, mines, cities, isolated villages, hamlets, poor settlements, ports, commercial centers, and hermitages, with lands yielding various crops, adorned pleasingly with lakes, rivers, ponds, mountains, forests, groves, and parks; men of steadfast fame, of boundless might, of immense strength, undefeated, crushers of unconquered enemies, smashers of the pride of thousands of foes, compassionate, unenvious, unvacillating, unwrathful, speaking gentle and friendly words, whose speech is smiling, deep, and sweet, affectionate to those who take refuge, protective, endowed with auspicious body-marks, secondary characteristics, and virtues; fully endowed with proper height, weight, and proportion, well-formed with handsome limbs throughout; gentle-faced like the moon, charming, pleasing to behold, intolerant [of insult], fierce in the dispensation of punishment, impressive to look upon; having palm-tree banners and raised Garuḍa standards; who crushed the powerful, roaring, proud, and haughty wrestlers Muṣṭika and Cāṇūra; slayers of the Riṣṭa bull; splitters of the lion’s mouth; crushers of the pride of the arrogant serpent; breakers of the twin Arjuna trees; foes of the great bird [Śakaṭa] and Pūtanā; breakers of Kaṃsa's crown; destroyers of the pride of Jarāsandha;
resplendent under parasols held over them, dense, even, and well-fitted, with a brilliance equal to the orb of the moon, dispelling the armor of the sun’s rays, and furnished with handles;
their bodies fanned with agreeable cool breezes from flywhisks brandished on both sides, flywhisks that are raised in the mountain caves of the highest peaks, originating from the tails of healthy cāmara cows; spotless, resembling white lotuses, blooming and shining, equal to the peaks of the silver mountain and the spotless rays of the moon, pure as silver; fluttering, moving, charming, and dancing when struck by the wind, stirring like the flowing waves of the supreme ocean of milk; of bright white appearance like the swans whose familiar dwelling is the expanse of Lake Mānasa; dwelling on the peak of the golden mountain; moving swiftly with an agile, sweeping speed descending and ascending; having handles curiously fashioned of various gems and precious gold, elegant, proclaiming the splendor and prosperity of the king; fashioned in supreme cities, used by opulent royal houses, charming with the wafting scent of rich incense of black agallochum, supreme olibanum, and Turkish incense;
invincible, with undefeated chariots, holding plows, pestles, and gold in their hands; wielding the conch, the discus, the mace, the lance, and the Nandaka sword; wearing supreme, brilliant, well-crafted, spotless Kaustubha jewels and crowns; their faces illuminated by earrings; with lotus-like eyes; their chests adorned with single-string pearl necklaces, bearing the auspicious mark of Śrīvatsa, of supreme fame, their chests adorned with long, blooming, colorful, beautiful wild-flower garlands woven with fragrant flowers of all seasons; their limbs handsome, well-proportioned, and resplendent with the one hundred and eight marks; moving with a playful gait like the graceful stride of a herd of rutting royal elephants; clad in blue and yellow silk garments with waistbands; possessing supreme, blazing majesty; with sweet, deep, and smooth voices like autumn thunder; lions among men, with the stride of lions, having eclipsed supreme royal lions; gentle, full moons of Bāravatī; resting in the accumulated happiness achieved by the power of their formerly performed austerities; possessing spans of life lasting many hundreds of years; pampered by their wives who are the foremost in the realm; having experienced peerless sound, touch, taste, form, and smell—even they succumb to the law of death, unsated with desires.
Moreover, sovereign feudatory kings, with their armies, their inner harems, their assemblies, their royal chaplains, ministers, magistrates, commanders, skilled in counsel and polity; with treasuries opulent in treasures of heaps of various gems, jewels, abundant wealth, and grains; having enjoyed extensive royal splendor, roaring loudly, intoxicated with power—even they succumb to the law of death, unsated with desires.
Moreover, the hosts of human beings who dwell in Uttarakuru and Devakuru, wandering on foot in the recesses of forests, enjoying supreme pleasures, bearing the marks of enjoyment, endowed with the splendor of pleasure, handsome, gentle, complete in appearance, and attractive to behold; well-formed with limbs beautiful throughout; with tender soles of hands and feet lovely as the petals of a red lotus; with firmly set feet handsome as tortoises, with well-knit fingers tapering in order; with raised, thin, coppery, and glossy nails; with well-set, closely joined, concealed ankles; with round, gradually tapering calves like the body of a doe or the kuruvinda berry; with knees naturally concealed like the joint of a casket; with a playful gait equal to the stride of a rutting noble elephant; with well-formed private parts like a noble horse; clean and unsoiled like a thoroughbred horse; with waists rounded more prominently than those of joyful noble horses and lions; with slender waists like a well-fashioned tripod, a pestle, a mirror, or a sword-hilt forged of refined gold, and like an excellent vajra; with a line of hair that is straight, even, dense, naturally fine, black, glossy, auspicious, charming, delicate, and soft; with full bellies well-shaped like fish and birds; slender-waisted; with navels deep as a lotus; with sunken, well-proportioned, beautiful, well-formed flanks, neither too large nor too small, full, and handsome; possessing bodies that are free from deformity, spotless like an ornament of refined gold, well-formed, and unblemished...
... with chests that are broad, wide, well-proportioned, even, and handsome like a slab of gold; with arms that are full, stout, and charming like a carriage-pole, with joints that are firmly set, closely knit, distinguished, well-formed, dense, steady, and securely bound; with arms rounded like the crossbars of city gates, long arms stretching out like the extended coils of the lord of serpents or a city crossbar; with palms that are red, well-proportioned, soft, fleshy, well-formed, marked with auspicious signs, with closely set fingers; with fingers that are plump, well-formed, tender, and supreme; with coppery, thin, very bright, and glossy nails; with glossy lines on their palms, lines shaped like the moon, the sun, the conch, the wheel, and the svastika of the quarters, distinct and well-drawn lines on their palms shaped like the sun, the moon, the conch, the excellent wheel, and the svastika of the quarters; with full and broad shoulders like those of an excellent buffalo, boar, lion, tiger, bull, and noble elephant; with necks measuring four finger-breadths and resembling an excellent conch; with beards and mustaches that are well-established, distinct, and attractive; with chins that are plump, fleshy, auspicious, and broad like a tiger's; with lower lips resembling polished stones, coral, and the bimba fruit; with rows of white teeth like a piece of the pale moon, a stainless conch, cow's milk foam, kunda flowers, drops of water, or lotus stalks; with unbroken, unchipped, closely set, very smooth, well-formed teeth, having many teeth like a single continuous row; with tongues and palates whose surfaces are red like refined gold purified, melted, and heated in fire; with prominent, straight, high noses like the beak of a Garuḍa; with eyes like fully opened white lotuses; with white, wide eyes like the opened petals of a white water-lily; with well-formed, long, interconnected eyebrows charming as a bent bow and like a streak of dark clouds; with close-fitting, well-proportioned ears, with excellent hearing; with plump, fleshy cheeks; with broad foreheads shaped like the newly risen crescent moon; with full, gentle faces like the moon; with heads shaped like an umbrella; with the crowns of their heads rounded like raised pavilions with dense, compact, firmly bound auspicious signs...
... with hair-lines red like gold refined, washed, and heated in fire; with hair dense as the fruit of the silk-cotton tree, parted, soft, clear, auspicious, fine, marked with auspicious signs, fragrant, handsome, black as a snake-stone, blue as a sapphire, like collyrium or a swarm of joyful bees, glossy, clustered, curled, turning to the right, and youthful; with well-formed, well-proportioned, and harmonious limbs; endowed with the qualities of auspicious marks and secondary characteristics; bearing the thirty-two auspicious marks; with voices like swans, curlews, drums, lions, waterfalls, clouds, sweet-voiced, of melodious resonant tones; with the vajrarṣabhanārāca bone-structure; with completely symmetrical proportions; with limbs and body illuminated by radiance; with healthy skin; with digestion like that of a heron; with mild temperaments like pigeons; with backs, sides, and thighs shaped like birds; with breath fragrant as lotuses and blue water-lilies; with their internal wind flowing downward naturally; with bright, glossy, dark, symmetrical, and prominent abdomens; feeding on fruits sweet as nectar; three gavūtas in height; with life spans of three palyopamas; having lived out the maximum life span of three palyopamas, even they succumb to the law of death, unsated with desires.
And their women too are gentle, well-formed, beautiful in all limbs, endowed with the foremost feminine virtues; with soft, delicate feet, shaped like tortoises, well-proportioned, and charming; with straight, soft, plump, and closely set toes; with nails that are raised, delightful, thin, coppery, clean, and glossy; with hairless, rounded, noble, auspicious, unblemished pairs of calves; with well-fashioned, well-concealed knees; with fleshy, auspicious, well-knit joints; with round, full, continuous thighs, unscarred, tender, soft, delicate, closely joined, even, and well-proportioned, surpassing the trunk of a plantain tree; with broad, wide, and auspicious hips shaped like the board of a gaming board; bearing excellent, broad, fleshy, and well-knit waists, twice the length of their faces; with slender abdomens adorned with auspicious marks resembling a vajra; with slender, bending waists marked by three folds; with a line of hair that is straight, even, dense, naturally fine, black, glossy, auspicious, charming, tender, soft, and well-defined; with deep, wide navels like the right-turning eddies and breaking waves of the Gaṅgā, and like lotuses freshly opened by the morning sun's rays; with prominent, auspicious, well-formed, plump bellies; with flanks that are slightly curved, harmonious, beautiful, well-formed, proportioned, full, and delightful; with bodies free from flaws, stainless like gold ornaments, well-formed, and unblemished...
with rounded breasts of the size of golden vessels, even, firm, and plump, with charming nipples; with arms that are rounded like a serpent, tapering gradually, round as a cow's tail, even, harmonious, flexible, auspicious, and charming; with coppery nails, fleshy hands, tender, plump, and excellent fingers; with glossy lines on their palms, distinct and well-fashioned lines on their palms shaped like the moon, the sun, the conch, the wheel, and the excellent svastika; with plump, raised armpits and lower bellies, with full throats and cheeks; with necks measuring four finger-breadths, resembling an excellent conch; with fleshy, well-set, auspicious chins; with charming lower lips, red as pomegranate flowers, plump, slightly protruding, curved, and supreme; with beautiful upper lips; with stainless, closely set teeth, white like curds, water droplets on leaves, kunda flowers, the moon, and jasmine buds; with palates and tongues tender as red water-lilies and red lotus petals; with straight, raised, prominent noses, uncrooked like oleander buds; with eyes auspiciously marked, uncrooked, and lovely, like a cluster of petals of autumn fresh lotuses, white lilies, and blue water-lilies; with fine, black, glossy eyebrows, charming as bent bows, resembling streaks of dark clouds, well-formed and harmonious; with close-fitting, well-proportioned ears, with excellent hearing; with plump, smooth cheekbones; with even foreheads four finger-breadths wide; with full, gentle, spotless faces like the moon in the moonlight; with heads raised like umbrellas; with black, glossy, and long hair; bearing the thirty-two auspicious marks: the umbrella, banner, sacrificial post, stūpa, lightning, water pot, vase, stepwell, svastika, flag, barley corn, fish, tortoise, noble chariot, makara banner, vajra, plate, goad, gaming board, pedestal, deity, anointing of Lakṣmī, archway, earth, ocean, excellent mansion, noble mountain, excellent mirror, playful elephant, bull, lion, and flywhisk; with gaits like swans, with voices like cuckoos and bees; charming, agreeable to all; free from wrinkles, grey hair, disfigurement, discoloration, disease, misfortune, and grief; slightly less in height than men; charmingly dressed as the abodes of erotic beauty; with beautiful breasts, hips, faces, hands, feet, and eyes; endowed with the virtues of loveliness, beauty, and youth; like apsarases wandering in the recesses of the Nandana grove, human apsarases of Uttarakuru, wondrous to behold; having lived out the maximum life span of three palyopamas, even they succumb to the law of death, unsated with desires.

Deeply attached to the sexual impulse and full of delusion, they strike one another with weapons when poisonous sense-objects are stirred up. Others are slain on account of another's wife, ruined, and meet with the destruction of wealth and the ruin of their kin. Those who do not abstain from another's wife, deeply attached to the sexual impulse and full of delusion—horses, elephants, cattle, buffaloes, and deer kill one another, human hosts, monkeys, and birds fight, friends quickly become enemies, [and] adulterers break with the doctrine, righteous conduct, and the monastic order. A celibate practitioner devoted to the virtues of the doctrine falls from conduct in an instant, the renowned and those of excellent vows incur infamy, those afflicted by disease and sickness increase their diseases and sicknesses, and those who do not abstain from another's wife find both worlds difficult to attain: this world and the world beyond.
Likewise, some, seeking another's wife, are seized, beaten, bound, and imprisoned, and in this manner, [suffering torment] up to [death], their consciousness overwhelmed by vast delusion, they go to joyless hell.
And it is heard that because of sexual union, devastating wars that brought destruction to many people took place there and then on account of Sītā, Draupadī, Rukmiṇī, Padmāvatī, Tārā, Kāñcanā, Raktasubhadrā, Ahalyā, Suvarṇaguṭikā, a Kinnarī, the fair Vidyunmatī, and Rohiṇī.
And on account of many other such groups of women, past wars are heard of that had their origin in the carnal impulse.
Ruined in this world and ruined in the next world as well, in the dread darkness of great delusion, living beings, held under the power of delusion, wander through the vast trackless forest of the fourfold cycle of rebirth—which is without beginning and without end, lasting a long period measured in palyopamas and sāgaropamas, full of old age, death, disease, and sorrow—among mobile and immobile, subtle and gross, fully developed and undeveloped, beings with a common body and individual bodies, beings born from eggs, born alive without an envelope, born from a womb, born from fluids, born from moisture, spontaneously generated, born from sprouts, and born through sudden manifestation, among beings in hell, animals, gods, and humans.
This is the fruition of the unchastity in this world and in the next world: giving little happiness, producing much suffering, causing great terror, thick with abundant karmic dirt, terrible, harsh, unpleasant, escaped only after thousands of years, and indeed there is no liberation without having experienced it. Thus spoke the great-souled Jina, the joy of the Jñāta clan, named the best of heroes [Vīra], and he related the fruition of unchastity.
This unchastity is the fourth [door of unrighteousness], desired by the world of gods, humans, and asuras; being a mire, moss, and an ensnaring net; the mark of female, male, and neuter gender; an obstacle to asceticism, self-control, and celibacy; an abode of discord; the root of abundant negligence; practiced by cowards and contemptible men; avoided by virtuous people; establishing the triple world—above, hell, and the animal realm; full of old age, death, disease, and sorrow; [a cause of] slaughter, binding, affliction, and grievous harm; the cause of delusion regarding insight and conduct; long-cultivated, pervasive, and terminating in evil. The fourth door of unrighteousness is completed.