Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers)
Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers) transl. Joh. Klatt ZdMG 33 (1879)
Ṛishabhapañcāśikā [33 of 50]
33. Those creatures rejected by you, O Lord, spend an infinite time bound by servants to a single chain, eating and defecating together.[1]
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[1] Comm.: Tvayāvagaṇitāḥ sattva ananta-kālaṃ prastavan nigodeshu nayanti |
Avadhīraṇā approx. sāmagrī-vaikalyenaiva dharmopadeśādy-abhāvāt |
nigoda-rūpā yaikā saṃlagnā śṛiṅkhalā (one can also separate saṅkala-ābaddhā in the text. Hem. I, 189) tayā niyantritāḥ I
tathā-sthiter eva tad-bhava-yogyāhāraiḥ sarve yugapad āhāraṃ curvanti, tat-pariṇāme approx. nīhāram api, ucchvāsa-ni (ḥ)-śvāsayor upalakshaṇaṃ caitat (see Hemac. Abhidh. v. 58 and schol.). Anye'pi ye nigoda-prayeshu gupti-gṛiheshu ayaḥ-śṛiṅkhalā-baddhā yugapat-kṛitāhāra-nīhārā bhūri-kālaṃ gamayanti.
