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Commentary. Here the word Nigota means such mobile creatures which are spontaneously born in large numbers in decaying matter, solid or liquid.
आमा वा पक्कां वा खादति यः स्पृशति वा पिशितपेशीम् । स निहन्ति सततनिचितं पिण्डं बहुजीवकोटीनाम् ॥ ६८॥
68. He who eats, or touches, a raw, or a cooked piece of flesh, certainly kills a group of spontaneously-born creatures constantly gathering together. मधुशकलमपि प्रायो मधुकरहिंसात्मकं भवति लोके । भजति मधुमूढधीको यःस भवति हिंसकोऽत्यन्तम् ॥६६॥
69. Even the smallest drop of honey in the world very often represents the death of bees; the fool who uses honey is a great destroyer. स्वयमेव विगलितं यो गृह्णीयाद्वा छलेन मधु गोलात्।। तत्रापि भवति हिंसा तदाश्रयप्राणिनां घातात् ॥ ७० ॥
70. Even if one uses honey which has been obtained by some trick from honey comb, or which has itself dropped down from it, there is Himsa in that case also, because of the destruction of creatures of spontaneous birth born there. मधु मयं नवनीतं पिशितं च महाविकृतयस्ताः। वल्भ्यन्ते न तिना तद्वर्णा जन्तवस्तत्र ॥७१॥
11. Honey, wine, butter, and flesh are extreme fermentations. Those with vows would not eat them. Therein (are born) creatures of the same genus. योनिरुदुम्बरयुग्मं पक्षन्यग्रोधपिप्पलफलानि । त्रसजीवानां तस्मात्तेषां तद्भक्षणे हिंसा ॥७२॥
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