अम्बरीषगाथा—गुणत्रयविभागः तथा लोभनिग्रहः
Ambarīṣa’s Gāthā: The Guṇas and the Restraint of Greed
स निगृह्यात्मनो दोषान् साधून् समभिपूज्य च । जगाम महतीं सिद्धि गाथाश्षेमा जगाद ह,उन्होंने अपने दोषोंको दबाया और उत्तम गुणोंका आदर किया। इससे उन्हें बहुत बड़ी सिद्धि प्राप्त हुई और उन्होंने यह गाथा गायी--
sa nigṛhyātmano doṣān sādhūn samabhipūjya ca | jagāma mahatīṃ siddhiṃ gāthāśṣemāṃ jagāda ha ||
Having restrained the faults within himself and having duly honored the virtuous, he attained a very great spiritual accomplishment; and then he recited this verse of well-being as a concluding utterance.
ब्राह्मण उवाच
Restrain one’s inner faults and actively honor the virtuous; such disciplined ethical conduct becomes the cause of true success or spiritual attainment (siddhi).
The Brahmin narrator describes a person who conquers his own vices and reveres the good, thereby attaining a great siddhi; immediately after, he begins to recite an auspicious verse (gāthā-kṣemā).