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of existence, birth b6 in consequence of birth, decay, death, 

 sorrow, weeping, grief, discontent and vexation are produced: 

 even thus is the origin of the complete catenation of sorrow. 

 But if this ignorance be completely removed and cease to be, 

 the accumulations of merit or demerit cease to be produced ; 

 a cessation from these accumulations (eeoSbdS) causes the 

 cessation of the faculty of consciousness ; the cessation of the 

 conscious faculty causes the cessation of body and the per- 

 ceptive powers Qm$®6%w) ; the cessation of the body and 

 mind is the cessation of the six organs of sense, from the 

 cessation of the organs of sense, contact or the action of the 

 organs cease ; from the cessation of the action of the organs 

 of sense, desire of enjoyment ceases ; from the cessation of 

 desire, attachment ceases : from the cessation of attachment, 

 a determination to a locality for existence (t^8o) ceases; 

 from the cessation of a location for existence birth ceases ; 

 by the cessation of birth, decay, death, sorrow, weeping, 

 grief, dissatisfaction, and vexation, cease ; and thus the 

 whole combination of sorrow ceases to be produced. 



Bagawa perceiving these truths gave utterance to his 

 complacency of feeling, saying, 



" Whenever the doctrines of truth develope themselves to 

 the persevering, meditative, holy man, {a) then, certainly, 

 doubts are dispelled, and he distinctly understands all things 

 together with their causes." 



During the second and third watch of the night his medi- 

 tations were the same, at the expiration of the second watch 

 he said, 



" Whenever these doctrines of truth (3W ©: ) develop them- 

 selves to the persevering, meditative, holy man, then certainly 

 doubts are dispelled, he experiencing in himself the cessa- 

 tion of the causes of existence (Scsoo©c3o«oo.)" 



(a) Or Bramin. 



