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 (Bambhaceräin)
When consuming food, drink, sweet or what is spiced, a monk or a nun should not take [what is being consumed] from the left cheek" to the right cheek, nor from the right to the left cheek in order to feel the taste."1
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[4.] A monk who has this idea: 'Truly, I get tired of it to drag around this [my] body further under the present circumstances', he should more and more reduce the amount of food," and when he has thereupon reduced his passions, 'when he has with energy adjusted his body [to it], when he has [become] thin as a plank, when his body is almost extinguished', then he should go into a village or city; or into a walled city, a city with ramparts, an isolated city, a city reachable either by land or by water, a city reachable both by land and by water; to a place where one mines metal, where monks stay, where pilgrims come together, where merchants live, or where a prince resides," and (112) beg for [a layer of] grass; with this he should go into solitude, spread it out in a place which is free of [insect] eggs, [small] animals, seeds, sprouts, hoar-frost, water, crack-fillings, humid loam, and spin webs, after he has examined and wiped it, and there, when the time has come, observe fasting exercises. ([And] this is the truth, [and] hanging on to truth,) strong, standing beyond [good and bad], over with uncertainty, adhering to the first [of all things]," without a [new] beginning, when he has (left) behind the fragile body, shaking off the temptations and hindrances, however they appear, he strives, because he trusts this.
70 hanuya, actually "jaw".
71 The following se aṇāsāyamāṇe stands isolated-cp. fn. 63 above-and is brought about by recalling āsāejja in 32, 6. But asatayet appears there, here äsvādayan.
72 The reason for the connection: the apparent context. (Cf. Mette 1991, pp. 75f., Caillat 1977a, p. 58 (WB).) 73 This enumeration does not exclude those places it does not mention; it is just an outflow of a better style and attempts, on the contrary, completeness. First village and city as such are mentioned nagara as a "taxfree city" (nâtra karaḥ) is not credible-then follow places according to their reachability, then those with special characteristics. The last group could also be extended, which then took place in Kappa. (1, 6). In the explanation of the individual words deviating from Ayara and Kappa. is the recorded stanza in the Sutrakṛtânga-Dipika on II 2, 13. (Cf. Bollée 2002 § 667 where Hemacandra's Triṣasti° 1, 6, 76 is to be added as an occurrence of the enumeration (WB).)
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ca, 38, 21.
75 Read ai-y-attha. The "first" is, of course, the doctrine of (Mahā)Vira.