History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c17.s1.22

c17.s1.22

¹ *Brāhmaṇāḥ kṣattriyā vaiśyā vṛṣalāś c’aiva sarvaśaḥ* *Purā devāsure yuddhe nirjitair asurais tadā* 29. *Pāṣaṇḍa-vaikṛtās tāta, n’ aiṣā sṛṣṭiḥ Svayambhuvaḥ.* *Yad viśrāddhaka-nirgranthāḥ śaktyā jīvanti karpaṭāḥ*, 30. *Ye dharmam n’ anuvartante, te vai nagn’-ādayo janāḥ.* *Vṛthā-jaṭī vṛthā-muṇḍī vṛthā-nagnaś ca yo dvijaḥ* 31. *Vṛthā-vratī vṛthā-jāpī te vai nagn’-ādayo janāḥ* *Kul’-adhamā Niṣādāś ca tathā puṣṭi-vināśakāḥ.* 32. *Kṛta-karm’-ākṣitās tv ete kupathāḥ parikīrtitāḥ,* *Ebhir nirvṛttam vā śrāddham vṛthā gacchati mānavān.* 33. *Vāyu*, 78. In the Poona text the second half of v. 32 reads: *Kulandhamā nikāśāś ca tathā puṣṭi-kalaṃśakāḥ*. For this I have substituted a variant reading (p. 291, n. 21); and I have altered *kulandhamā* to *kulādhamā*. Otherwise the text (vol. i, p. 191).