________________ Notes 93 former actions are bad, even choico-marriagowill bring us misery and if our actions are good even marriage by parents or any other kind of marriage will bring us happiness. The: author, however, gives a better place to marriage by parents which, according to him, oultivates in our hearts the virtue of modesty which many times becomes a cause of happiness in the end as was in the case of Mayanasundari, whereas choice-marriage on the contrary brings the vices of arrogance and immodesty which often become the cause of misery in the end as was in the case of Surasundari. Save this reason, he has no system of marriage to advocate. The only thing that he wants to emphasize is that whatever system of mar. riage might be, the happiness or otherwise of it does not depend upon any such system, but it depends upon a person's actions of former birth. This is the view of the author, a Jaina Acha. rya, and hence it is the view of Jainism as well, and any believer in the theory of Karma (as propounded in the 6 Karmagranthas ) wilt certainly adopt this view. St. 92. The second half of this stanza is a सुभाषित. For similar thought of. " लिखितमपि See alfag FH: 1".
