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appears of no value ! Look at the holy Harikêsa, the son of a Svapâka, whose power is so great.' (37)
"O Brâhmanas, why do you tend the fire, and seek external purity by water? The clever ones say that external purity which you seek for, is not the right thing. (38)
"You (use) Kusa-grass, sacrificial poles, straw and wood, you touch water in the evening and in the morning; thereby you injure living beings, and in your ignorance you commit sins again and again.” (39)
How should we sacrifice, O monk, and how avoid sinful actions ? Tell us, ascetic, whom the Yakshas hold in honour, what do the clever ones declare to be the right method of sacrificing ?' (40)
"Doing no injury to living beings of the six orders, abstaining from lying and from taking what is not freely given, renouncing property, women, pride, and deceit, men should live under selfrestraint. (41)
“He who is well protected by the five Samvaras ? and is not attached to this life, who abandons his body?, who is pure and does not care for his body, wins the great victory, the best of offerings.” (42)
Where is your fire, your fireplace, your sacrificial ladle ? where the dried cowdung (used as fuel)? Without these things, what kind of priests can the monks be? What oblations do you offer to the fire ?' (43)
* Samvara is preventing, by means of the Samitis and Guptis, the âsrava, or flowing in of the Karman upon the soul. Bhandarkar, loc. cit. p. 106.
? This is the Kâyôtsarga, the posture of a man standing with all his limbs immovable, by which he fortifies himself against sins, &c.
