350 NOTES ON were yoked to carts or were used for riding ), where the highest goal of man was mostly women and winewhere the offerings and worship of deities mostly consisted of blood, where religious rites mostly consisted in offering beasts. सारमेयप्रायः परिवारः यस्मिन्. } सारमेयः (सरमायाः अपत्यं ) dog. धवलीप्रायं वाहनं यस्मिन्. धवली (also धवला) a white cowवर्णादिभेदात्संज्ञाः स्युः शबलीधवलादय इत्यमरः T "धवलो वृषभः। ‘पारौ श्वेते वृषे श्रेष्ठे धवलो धवली गवि’ इति वैजयन्ती. स्त्रीमद्यप्रायः पुरुषार्थः यस्मिन् The ordinary goals of human existence are धर्म &c. (see notes p. 196 ). But in the पकण, women and wine were all that the Chandalas cared for. असृक्प्रायौ (रक्तबहुलैौ) देवतानां (उपहारः) पूजा (अभिषेकादिः) च यस्मिन् पशूपहारप्राया धर्मक्रिया यस्मिन् आकर..नरकाणाम् as if it were the mine ( rich source) of all । १ hella Hall is supposed to be a disgusting place. As the पक्कण was most loatbsome it is said to be the source of all hells. ‘खनिः स्त्रियामाकरः स्यात्' इत्यमरः. स्यान्नारकस्तु नरको निरयो दुर्गतिः स्त्रियाम् । रौरवाः ॥'. There are said to be 7 नरकe; see ब्रह्मसूत्र ‘अपि च सप्त' III. 1. 15. on which शङ्कराचार्य says ‘अपि च सप्त नरका रौरवप्रमुखा दुष्कृतफलोपभोगभूमित्वेन स्मर्यन्ते पौराणिकैः . ‘नराः कायन्ति अस्मिन्निति नरकः. कारणम् the cause or source. अकुशलम् = पापम् . संनिवेशः site, position; collection. श्मशान is calculated to strike fear. But the पक्कण was most fearful and hence is said to be the site of all the cemeteries in the world. पत्तनम्—city. आयतन-..यातनानाम् as if it were the home of all torments (of hell ). स्मर्य ...भयङ्करम् which struck terror even when merely remembered (and not actually seen ). Ar. explains ‘लोके भीषणं वस्तु दृश्यमानावस्थायां भीतिकरमेतदत्यन्त भीषणतया स्मर्यमाणभयङ्करम्. भूय...करम् which causes renor even when it is simply heard. उद्वेगः sbaking, alarmThe पकण was so terrible that the mere mention of it made people tremble. To make people alarmed, it was not necessary that they should see it. दृश्य-..जननम् which produced sin even when it was simply seen. Generally si४ &s &ncred by doing a thing; but the पक्कण was so much steeped in sin and flth that to see such a blot on the world would have made the spectator partake of a part of its sin. जन्म..जनम् the people in which were dirfier than thei birth and actionsThey were born in filthy surroundings and their usual actions also were sobut they were far more dirty bban this state of things (४%. their filthy birth and कर्म) would have led us to suppose. जनतो.-हृदयम् where the hearts of the people were more cruel than the people. The meaning is: They were very filthy people no doubt, but their hearts were far move filthy than one would expect them to be in the case of
