The institutes of Vishnu (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880)

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VISH2VU.

XCVI, 31.

31. And on (his having to dwell) between urine
and fseces;
32. On his having to suffer, (as an embryo,) pain
from the cold and hot (food and drink, which his
mother happens to have taken) ;
33. On the dreadful pain which he has to suffer,
at the time of his birth, while the embryo is coming
forth from the narrowness of the womb;
34. On his ignorance and his dependency upon
his (parents and other) Gurus in childhood ;
35. On the manifold anxieties arising from the
study of the Veda (and from the other obligations
of a student);
36. And (on the anxieties arising) in youth from
not obtaining the objects of pleasure, and upon
the abode in hell (ordained as punishment) for
enjoying them, after they have been obtained un-
lawfully ;
37. On the union with those whom we hate, and
the separation from those whom we love;
38. On the fearful agonies of hell;
39. And (on the agonies) that have to be suffered
in the passage of the soul through the bodies of
animals (and of plants).
40. (And let him refect thus that) there is no
pleasure to be met with in this never-ceasing pas-
sage of the soul through mundane existence ;
41. (And that) even what is called pleasure, on
account of the absence of pain, is of a transient
nature;
42. (And that) he who is unable to enjoy such
pleasures (from sickness or some such cause), or
who is unable to procure them (from poverty),
suffers severe pangs.