Uttarajjhayana 197.1.32_5

197.1.32_5

paccayatthaṃ ca logassa | nāṇāvihavigappaṇaṃ /
jattatthaṃ gahaṇatthaṃ ca | loge liṃgapaoyaṇaṃ ||32||

"The various outward marks (of religious men) have been introduced in order that people might recognise them as such; the reason for the characteristic marks is their usefulness for religious life and their distinguishing character. (32)
"Now the opinion (of the Tîrthakaras) is that knowledge, faith. and right conduct are the true causes of final liberation, (and not the outward marks)." (33)
'Well, Gautama, you possess wisdom, you have destroyed my doubt; but I have another doubt, which you must explain to me, Gautama. (34)
'Gautama, you stand in the midst of many thousand (foes) who make an attack on you; how have you vanquished them? (35)
"By vanquishing one, five are vanquished; by vanquishing five, ten are vanquished; by this tenfold victory, I vanquish all foes." (36)
Kêsi said to Gautama: 'Whom do you call a foe?' To these words of Kêsi Gautama made the following reply: (37)
"Self is the one invincible foe, (together with the four) cardinal passions, (viz. anger, pride, deceit, and greed, they are five) and the (five) senses (make ten). These (foes), O great sage, I have regularly vanquished." (38)
'Well, Gautama, &c. (as in verse 28). (19)
'We see many beings in this world who are bound by fetters; how have you got rid of your fetters and are set free, O sage?' (40)
"Having cut off all fetters, and having destroyed them by the right means, I have got rid of my fetters and am set free, O sage." (41)