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UTTARADHYAYANA.
from doing acts which cause misery to living beings, or which cause their destruction. (24, 25)
These are the five Samitis for the practice of the religious life, and the Guptis for the prevention of everything sinful. (26)
This is the essence of the creed, which a sage should thoroughly put into practice; such a wise man will soon get beyond the Circle of Births. (27) Thus I say.
TWENTY-FIFTH LECTURE.
THE TRUE SACRIFICE.
There was a famous Brâhmana, Gayaghôsha by name, who was born in a Brâhmanical family, but who was pledged to the performing of the yamas1. (1)
This great sage, who subdued all his senses, and who walked on the right road, came, on his wandering from village to village, to the town of Benares. (2)
There outside of Benares he took up his lodgings in a pleasant park; there he took up his abode in a pure place to live and sleep in. (3)
At the same time a Brâhmana, versed in the Vêdas, Vigayaghôsha by name, offered a sacrifice in that town. (4)
Now this houseless (monk) at the end of a fast of a month's duration, went to the sacrifice of Vigayaghôsha to beg alms. (5)
1 Yama etymologically means 'restraint;' here it denotes the great vows of the Gainas; cf. XXIII, 12, p. 121 and note 2.
