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Uttarajjhayana 128.1.53-55

Uttarajjhayaṇa 128.1.53-55

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Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit

128.1.53

sallaṃ kāmā visaṃ kāmā | kāmā āsīvisovamā /
kāme patthemāṇā | akāmā janti doggaiṃ ||53||

128.1.54

ahe vayanti koheṇaṃ | māṇeṇaṃ ahamā gaī /
māyā gaīpaḍigghāo | lobhāo duhao bhayaṃ ||54||

128.1.55

avaujjhiūṇa māhaṇa | rūvaṃ viuvviūṇa indattaṃ /
vandai abhitthuṇanto | imāhi mahurāhiṃ vaggūhiṃ ||55||

Throwing off the guise of a Brâhmana, and making visible his true form, Sakra saluted him respectfully and praised him with these sweet words: (55)
"Bravo! you have conquered anger; bravo! you have vanquished pride; bravo! you have banished delusion; bravo! you have subdued greed. (56)
"Bravo for your simplicity, O saint! bravo for your humility, O saint! bravo for your perfect patience! bravo for your perfect liberation! (57)
"Here (on earth) you are the highest man, Reverend sir, and hereafter you will be the highest; exempt from all blemishes you will reach Perfection, a higher state than which there is none in this world." (58)
Thus praising the royal Seer, Sakra in perfect faith kept his right side towards him and paid reverence to him, again and again. (59)
After having adored the best sage's feet marked by the Kakra and the Aṅkusa, he flew up through the air, with his crown and his earrings prettily trembling. (60)
Nami humbled himself; enjoined by Sakra in person, the king of Vidêha left the house, and took upon him Sramanahood. (61)
Thus act the enlightened, the wise, the clever ones; they turn away from pleasures, as did Nami, the royal Seer. (62)
Thus I say.

Hermann Jacobi 1895, Uttarâdhyayana Sûtra (Gaina Sûtras II, SBE 45)

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