ENTERING ANOTHER'S BODY. 37 



of the queen? Moreover, judging from this show of feeling other 

 delights shall be mine. ! " 



The Parrot at KamalavaW s Request Preaches the Law {246-2^2). 

 The queen again addressed the parrot : " I am vastly pleased 

 with thy nectar-sprinkling speech ; do thou then tell something of the 

 Essence of the Law." Then the parrot said : " Listen, O Queen, 

 I have heard from the mouth of the Master that it is meritorious to 

 benefit others, sinful to oppress others. No moral obligation com- 

 pares with abstention from doing injury, no vow with content. 

 Nothing makes for purity as does truth ; no ornament is there the 

 like of virtue. And it has been well said : Truth is purity ; ascetic 

 practice is purity ; control of the senses is purity ; pity of all living 

 things is purity. ]^urification by water holds but the fifth place. 

 To cast away filth of mind, that is a bath indeed ; to bestow security 

 from injury, that is a gift indeed; to know truth's essence, that is 

 knowledge indeed ; to extricate the mind from the senses, that is 

 contemplation indeed. Even the householder*^ who .constantly eats 

 food in faith may through purity of mind attain to the law ; without 

 it, even ascetic practice is in vain. For it has been said : The mind 

 of man alone is the instrument of bondage or release ;®* in bondage 

 it clings to the senses, but in release it casts them away." 



Episode, Illustrating the Superiority of Soul-purification over 

 Meritorious Deeds (2^^-286). 

 " Thus once upon a time a wise king heard that his brother, 

 a Sage, had arrived at a part outside of the city ; then he went 

 there followed by his retainers. The king, adorned with the 

 bloom of his hair that bristled from joyous emotion, ^^ paid his 

 respects to the Sage, listened to the law from his mouth, then 

 returned to his palace. The chief queen, longing in turn to greet 

 her brother-in-law, the Sage, took leave of the king in the even- 

 ing, and made the following vow : ' I must in the morning, sur- 



S3 In Jain religion tlie lay liouseholder (grhin, grha-vasin, gravaka, etc.) is 

 distinguished from the professional ascetic (yati). The religious obligations 

 of the former class are less stringent than those of the latter. 



s* Bondage in saitisara; release in nirvana. 



so Horripilation with the Hindus is a symptom of joy as well as of fear. 

 In literature it is almost always connected with joy. 



