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Sutrakrtanga II - A Historical Evaluation
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mobile type in an earlier birth cannot be said to belong to the mobile type in the present birth when it actually belongs to the static type (p. 404). Hence it is that the phrase 'not to injure beings which belong to the mobile type' is absolutely equivalent to the phrase not to injure beings which now belong to the mobile type'. In the course of argumentation the life of a pious householder is incidentally described employing good many concepts that are technical; (we have already taken note of these concepts to another connection). An ontologial thesis of some interest is also laid down-viz, that even if any being belonging to the mobile type can be next born as belonging to the static type and vice versa, it will never happen that all the beings of the universe belong to the mobile type or that all of men belong to the static type (p. 422).
This cursory review of the contents of Sūtrakstānga II should enable one to make a proper assessment of its historical value,
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