Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
## 268
## Dasha Shruta Skandha Sutra
**Original Meaning:** O Aryas! Thus beginning, the glorious Shraman Bhagwan Mahavira Swami invited many Nirgranthas and Nirgranthis and said, "O Aryas! There are thirty places of Mohaniya Karma, which will be described. A woman or man, generally or specifically, repeatedly indulging in these, accumulates bad karma due to the influence of Mohaniya Karma."
**Commentary:** This Sutra first teaches that a benevolent person should provide beneficial teachings with a sense of benefit, even without being asked. Just as the glorious Bhagwan, with a sense of benefit, invited the Sadhus and Sadhvis and educated them, "O Aryas! Due to the thirty reasons to be mentioned, a woman or man earns Mohaniya Karma, and due to them, they wander in the cycle of existence, devoid of liberation. Anyone, generally or specifically, engaging in the actions to be mentioned, falls into the bondage of Mohaniya Karma. Just as there are intentions, they also earn karma of that nature. Therefore, knowing these thirty places well, one should strive to avoid them."
**Ninth Dasha**
Now the Sutrakar describes the thirty places of Mohaniya Karma through verses:
**Verse 1:**
**Original:** जे केइ तसे पाणे वारिमज्झे विगाहिआ ।
उदएण क्कम्म मारेइ महामोहं पकुव्वइ ||१||
**Translation:** Yaḥ kashchittrasān prāṇān vāri-madhye vigāhya | udakenākramya mārayati mahāmoham prakurute ||1||
**Word by Word Meaning:** Je - who, kei - any, tase - fear, paṇe - beings, vāri-majzhe - in water, vigāhiā - diving, udayeṇa - by water, karma - action, mārei - kills, mahāmoham - great Mohaniya Karma, pakuvvai - earns.
**Original Meaning:** The person who kills beings by diving them into water and attacking them with water, earns great Mohaniya Karma.