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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
and leaving the human body, he becomes his own master ?, and is liberated from misery. (20)
Without property, without egoism, free from passions and the Asravas, he obtains absolute knowledge, and reaches eternal beatitude. (21)
Thus I say.
THIRTY-SIXTH LECTURE.
ON LIVING BEINGS AND THINGS WITHOUT LIFE .
Now learn from me with attentive minds the division of Living Beings and Things without life 3, which a monk must know who is to exert himself in self-control. (1)
1 By the destruction of the vîryântarâya.
* It will perhaps not be amiss to give a systematic list of the subjects treated in this lecture. The numbers refer to the verses.
A. Things without life, 3-48.
(1) Without form, 5-9.
(2) With form, 10-48. B. Living Beings, 48–246.
(1) Perfected souls, 50-68. (2) Mundane Beings, 69-246. a. Immovable Beings, 71-106.
a. Earth Lives, 71-84. B. Water Lives, 85-92.
y. Plants, 93-106. 6. Movable Beings, 108–246.
a. Fire Lives, 109-117. B. Wind Lives, 118-126. y. Beings with an organic body, 127-246.
3 See next page.
