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Annexe 2
Extracts from some Jain sacred books
We give here some short extracts from Jain sacred books interesting to be read. So, we will first see some extracts from the “Ācārăngasūtra”, from the “Uttarādhyayana-sūtra" and from the “Kalpasūtra" translated in English by Hermann Jacobi and edited, for the first time, in 1884 and 1895 by “Oxford University Press "in the series “The sacred books of the East "(volumes 22 and 45). Next we will report some “sütra" from the “Tattvārthādhigama-sütra” translated in English by late Nathmal Tatia and edited in 1994 by “Harper Collins Publishers”in New York
Extracts from the “Ācārānga-sūtra"
In this book, only acknowledged as valuable by the Svetāmbara, Sudharmā, one of the “Ganadhara”, conveys various teachings he got from Mahāvīra to one of his own disciples Jambū. The book comprises numerous lessons of which we give the following short sentences:
“The man (the liberated) conquers wrath, pride, deceit and greed. This is the doctrine of the Seer who does not injure living beings and has put an end to acts and to “saṁsāra".
“He who is careless in all respects is in danger, he who is not careless in all respects is free from danger”.
"He who conquers one passion conquers many and he who conquers many conquers one”.
"He who avoids one passion avoids them all separately and he who avoids them separately avoids one. Faithful according to the
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