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## Ninth Dasha
**With Hindi Commentary**
**1**
**Original Meaning:** One who sets fire and encircles many people, killing them with smoke, falls into the bondage of the Maha-Mohaniya Karma.
**Commentary:** This Sutra also describes the Maha-Mohaniya Karma bondage arising from the violence against living beings. A person who encircles many people in a pavilion or similar place, sets fire around them, and kills them with smoke, earns Maha-Mohaniya Karma. Killing living beings with smoke is an extremely cruel act. It suffocates the creature, causing it to die in great pain. Thus, the one who kills living beings falls into the bondage of a highly sinful and ignorant act, causing them to suffer for countless eons.
Although intense fire can also harm other living beings, the intention of the killer is only towards those he has encircled. Therefore, the killing of those beings is the main cause of Maha-Mohaniya Karma for him. The 'Samavayanga Sutra' considers this place as the fourth place.
Now the Sutrakar speaks about the subject of the fourth place:
**4**
**Sissamm jo pahnai uttamangammi cheyasa.
Vibhajja matthayam phale mahamoham pakuvvai.**
**Meaning:** One who strikes the head with a wicked mind, knowing it to be the vital part (thinking that death will surely occur by striking it), and breaks the head, earns Maha-Mohaniya Karma.
**Original Meaning:** One who strikes the head and breaks it, because the breaking of the vital part surely leads to death,