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or entrance on Vishnu\s world ; to the rdjasa, the sdmipya, or nearnesis 

 to Vishnu ; to the sdtwica is awarded the sdrupya, or identification with 

 Vishnu's form. To the spiritually wise, is allotted sdyujya, absorption 

 into the essence of Vishnu. 



*'He," says Capila (as Vishnu), " who offers sacrifice, but not to me, -^er- 

 ^oims a ydgam on ground covered with ashes :* the sacrifice of a pre- 

 vailingly treacherous man I will not accept. Better than a motionless 

 animal existence, is one that walks ; better than this, is a four-footed 

 beast ; and better than a four-footed beast is the biped man. Among 

 men the Brahmans are the greatest. Such Brahmans as have studied the 

 V eddntam (spiritual end, or substance, of the Vedas) are more honourable 

 than others. The Ni/anis (or wise) are still greater. The Vriddhis 

 (or exempt from sensual passion) are better than they. The Sat- 

 wica-Dhermas are best. Such of these last as worship Vishnu are better 

 than others. And such of these worshippers of Vishnu, as are wholly 

 without earthly desires, or attachment to earthly things, are much the 

 best. These have me in their possession." The contrast is introduced ; 

 and a catalogue of crimes, vices, and follies, is stated, as pertaining to 

 those who do not worship Vishnu. Among them are the three vicious 

 desires of land, women, money, or property : those who eat flesh, and who 

 drink any strong or intoxicating drinks, will, like the victims of other 

 vices, be punished for many thousand years in Yama-loca (hell). Of 

 these punishments, in that world, as apportioned to each crime mention- 

 ed, there is a full and minute specification. When the spirit is separated 

 from the mortal body, there is a kind of body, with which it is clothed, 

 that is adapted to bear, and feel, those several punishments, termed Fata- 

 wa-c^ec« (the punishment bearing body). When the expiation, by suffer- 

 ing, is ended, then according to the former carmam (state or degree of me- 

 rit, or demerit) the spirit will be born anew, or otherwise. A little time 

 before birth, the pent-up existence, or straitened-soul, will remember and 

 think intensely on all the crimes, or vices, attendant on a former state of 

 existence ; with a sorrowful consciousness of their enormity. The pains 

 of birth, to the child itself, during parturition, are greater than the tor" 

 ments of Yama-loca. In consequence Capila exhorts his mother to per- 

 form severe penance ; in order that she may not be exposed to the evil of 

 future births ; nor suffer their attendant pangs. Here the narrative o. 

 Maitraya to Viruda is suspended. It was repeated by Suca to Paricshit ; 



* That is unprofitable ; good, and clean, ground being an essential requisite in a ydgam, 

 or sacrifice. 



