Mahaviras Word

SR No.: 001561
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 318
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & Philosophy
File Size: 22 MB

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Pure Life (Bambhacerāim)
opinion, then know thereby: [it is] by chance. Just as it, seen and recognized by the Lord with a swift power of understanding, has been proclaimed, so has the doctrine not [yet] been proclaimed and presented to them with success, nor caution in speech. So I say.
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Everywhere evil is intended; (if one has overcome it then this) is called (the great separation.) Take note of what (doctrine) the wise, pious one has proclaimed. In the village or forest ([or] neither in the village nor in the forest) one mentions three stages of life (in which these best ones here are awakened and have gone out,[so that it is said of them:] 'Those who have turned away from evil action, (they) are called bondless'.)(42)
In [all] directions: above, below and in our sphere (everywhere in the whole [world]) to living beings you should (in every case through activity with a deed),
*A prudent one who has recognized this [as being injurious]', should neither himself commit a violent act against these bodies," nor cause to commit a violent act against these bodies through others, nor approve of others who commit a violent act against these bodies. However, we are ashamed of the others (106) who do violence to these bodies. A prudent one who has recognized this [as being injurious should] not commit this violent act or another violent act
[himself], out of fear for (committing) a violent act. So I say.
[1] A monk practises devotion, stands, sits or lies down perhaps in a cemetery, in an uninhabited house, in a cave, at the foot of a tree, in a potter's house or elsewhere [no one lives permanently]. As the monk, now, tarries in any such place, a householder perhaps steps in and says: "Revered monk! see, for you, food, drink, sweet, what is spiced, clothing, bowl, cloth or broom I have especially bought, taken on credit, obtained violently, given from our common property, had it brought, and this, by
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In his personal copy Schubring notes regarding this passage: not so Hoernle in ERE I, p. 264b (WB). 43 Or: "life forms".
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For the reason why ascetics often stayed with potters and, apparently not only Ajivikas, see Basham 1951, pp. 134 and 193 (WB).