Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers)

    Alexander Zeugin

    Dhanapāla's Ṛishabhapañcāśikā (a collection of 50 verses on the 1st of the 24 Seers) transl. Joh. Klatt ZdMG 33 (1879)

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    Ṛishabhapañcāśikā [41 of 50]

     

    41. The sciences by which other religions, however false they may be, gain glory, are small drops of the ocean of your teaching.[1]

     

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    [1] Comm.: Visaṃsthulā api para-siddhāntā yair vacanaiś candrasūryoparāgādi-jñāna-rūpaiḥ slaghāṃ labhante |

    tāni vacanāni mandāny alpa-vishayatvena stoka-prakāśakāny atah śruta-mahodadher jñāna-jala-viprashāṃ śīkarāṇīva ||

    Ayam āśayaḥ | śrutakevalino ‘saṃkhyeya-bbavān jīvānāṃ pratipādayanti |

    tvat-samaya-pāragāḥ (!) tat-puro grahoparāgādi-jñāna-prakāśanaṃ yat kiṃcid budget ||