Uttarajjhayana 197.1.42_3

197.1.42_3

polleva muṭhī jaha se asāre | ayantie kūḍakahāvaṇe vā /
rāḍhāmaṇī veruliyappagāse | amahagghae hoi hu jāṇaesu ||42||

"He is empty like a clenched fist, (of no value) like an uncoined false Kârshâpana or like a piece of glass resembling turquoise, he is held lightly by men of discernment. (42)
"He who has the character of a sinner, though he lays great stress on the outward signs of his calling as a means of living; he who does not control himself, though he pretends to do so; will come to grief for a long time. (43)
"As the poison Kâlakûta kills him who drinks it; as a weapon cuts him who awkwardly handles it; as a Vêtâla kills him who does not lay him; so the Law harms him who mixes it up with sensuality. (44)
"He who practises divination from bodily marks and dreams, who is well versed in augury and superstitious rites, who gains a sinful living by practising magic tricks, will have no refuge at the time (of retribution). (45)
"The sinner, always wretched, goes from darkness to darkness, to utter misery; the unholy man who breaks the rules of monks, rushes, as it were, to hell, and to be born again as a brute. (46)
"He who accepts forbidden alms, viz. such food as he himself asks for, as has been bought for his sake, or as he gets regularly (as by right and custom), who like fire devours everything, will go to hell from here, after having sinned. (47)
"A cut-throat enemy will not do him such harm as his own perversity will do him; the man without pity will feel repentance in the hour of death. (48)