adhigaguṇā sāmaṇṇe vaṭṭanti guṇādharehin kiriyāsu .
bhedarūpo mukhyavr̥uttyā shubhopayogarūpeṇedānīn vyākhyāto, nāsti punaruktadoṣh iti . evan samāchāravisheṣhavivaraṇarūpeṇ chaturthasthale gāthāṣhṭakan gatam . ath svayam guṇahīnaḥ san pareṣhān guṇādhikānān yo‘sau vinayan vāñchhati, tasya guṇavināshan darshayati — so hodi aṇantasansārī sa kathañchidanantasansārī sambhavati . yaḥ kin karoti . paḍichchhago jo du pratyeṣhako yastu, abhilāṣhako‘pekṣhak iti . kam . viṇayan vandanādivinayam . kasya sambandhinam . guṇadodhigassa bāhyābhyantararatnatrayaguṇābhyāmadhikasyānya- tapodhanasya . ken kr̥utvā . homi samaṇo tti ahamapi shramaṇo bhavāmītyabhimānen garveṇ . yadi kim . hojjan guṇādharo jadi nishchayavyavahāraratnatrayaguṇābhyān hīnaḥ svayam yadi chedbhavatīti . ayamatrārthaḥ — yadi chedguṇādhikebhyaḥ sakāshādgarveṇ pūrvan vinayavāñchhān karoti, pashchādvivekabalenātmanindān karoti, tadānantasansārī na bhavati, yadi punastatraiv mithyābhimānen khyātipūjālābhārthan durāgrahan karoti tadā bhavati . athavā yadi kālāntare‘pyātmanindān karoti tathāpi na bhavatīti ..266.. ath svayamadhikaguṇāḥ santo yadi guṇādharaiḥ sah vandanādikriyāsu vartante tadā guṇavināshan darshayati — vaṭṭanti vartante pravartante jadi yadi chet . kva vartante . kiriyāsu vandanādikriyāsu . kaiḥ sah . guṇādharehin guṇādharairguṇarahitaiḥ . svayam kathambhūtāḥ santaḥ . adhigaguṇā adhikaguṇāḥ . kva . sāmaṇṇe shrāmaṇye chāritre . te michchhattapauttā havanti te kathañchidatiprasaṅgānmithyātvaprayuktā bhavanti . na kevalan mithyātvaprayuktāḥ, pabbhaṭṭhachārittā prabhraṣhṭachāritrāshcha bhavanti . tathāhi — yadi bahushrutānān pārshve gnānādiguṇavr̥uddhayarthan svayam chāritraguṇādhikā api vandanādikriyāsu vartante tadā doṣho nāsti . yadi punaḥ kevalan khyātipūjālābhārthan
ab, jo shramaṇ shrāmaṇyase adhik ho vah, jo apanese hīn shramaṇake prati samān jaisā (-apane barābarīvāle jaisā) ācharaṇ kare to usakā vināsh batalāte hain : —
anvayārtha : — [yadi shrāmaṇye adhikaguṇāḥ ] jo shrāmaṇyamen adhik guṇavāle hain, tathāpi [guṇādharaiḥ ] hīnaguṇavāloṅke prati [kriyāsu ] (vandanādi) kriyāommen [vartante ] vartate hain, [te ] ve [mithyopayuktāḥ ] mithyā upayukta hote hue [prabhraṣhṭachāritrāḥ bhavanti ] chāritrase bhraṣhṭa hote hain ..267..
to bhraṣhṭa thāy charitrathī upayukta mithyā bhāvamān. 267.