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LXX : PAÑCALINGĪPRAKARANAM
daily chores. Also, he is so detached from his material wealth that he considers only that much as worthwhile as is used for serving the needs of the deity and the gurus and considers the remaining wealth as unworthy and the cause for increasing the wanderings in worldly transmigration.2
Nirvedalinga (Detachment From the Mundane) : The 33rd to
52nd verses of this work are devoted to the analysis of the third sign of righteouness – detachment. The righteous soul feels anxious and thinks about renunciation of the worldly life when it thinks about the mundane miseries suffered during transmigration in the four worldly species and about the unbearable sufferings in the hellish and subhuman species. Further, it says that due to the reasons like false-vision, etc, the soul bonds such karmic bondages that result in its being cooked and burnt in the fierce Kumbhipāka fires in the hells. On coming out of the hells, too, he gets reborn in sub-human species and as a hellish being fron there again. Even as a human being, it is born in lowly caste and family and suffers the misery of employment in demeaning tasks. There, it suffers disease and deprivation, separation from the desirable and association with the undesirable and dies a miserable
Ibid, 29–30. Ibid, 31. Ibid, 33–34. Ibid, 35-38.
