Early Jainism

SR No.: 001520
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K K Dixit
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 120
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Philosophy
File Size: 7 MB

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Early Jainism
singers and so they have not been repeated in the case of the remaining four vices, but the third type, though it too is the common fate of all sinners, is described differently in the case of some vices).
(ii) Falsehood : Here is first enumerated the case of ordinary liars, then the case of false philosophers who preach all sorts of faulty doctrines, then the case of those who level a false accusation against others, then the case of those who report to a killer the whereabouts of his prospective victims, then the casc of those who utter a speech involving violence. In the end by way of enumerating the ill-consequences of falschood to be reaped in the next birth there are cited the hardships suffered by unfortunate men like one born with speech-defect or one wbo is maligned by everybody,
(iii) Theft : Here is first enumerated the case of ordinary thieves, then the case of kings going o war, then the case of seapirates, then the case of forest-dwelling thieves. In the end, by way of cnumerating the ill-consequences of theft reaped in this very life there is given a detailed account of the court-puuishments meted out to a thies; and by way of enumerating the ill-cosequences to be reaped in the next birth there are cited the ha: dships suffered by unfortunate iren like one born poor or one fallen Înto slavery.
(iv) Incontinence ; Here is first enumerated the case of the luxurious and luxury-loving gods who yet die sex-hungry, and then one by one the similarly fated Cakravartins (svorld-rulers), Buladevas, Vasudevas, Mundalikas (regional rulers) men born in the world-regions called bhogabhūmi
= the regions where one enjoys the luxories of life without doing any work), women born in those regions. In the end, by way of enumerating the ill-consequences of incontinence to be reaped in this very life there are cited the physical and social dangers faced by one mad after sex-pleasure, the historic battles people have waged for the sake of women; (here nothing particular is said about the ill-consequences to be reaped in the next birth).
(v) Acquisitiveness : Here is first enumerated the case of the muci. possessing gods who yet die possession-hungry, then in one stretch the case of the similarly fated Cakravartins, Baladevas, Vasudevas etc. (Nothing particular is said by way of enumerating the ill-consequences of aoquisitiveness. 1
This kernel of the Praśnavyäkarana account of vices is to be separated out carefully, for it is invariably accompanied by a plethora of details which are often of a purely literary value,