Agam 30 Mool 03 Uttaradhyayana Sutra Sthanakvasi

SR No.: 002912
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Amarmuni, Shreechand Surana
Publisher: Atmagyan Pith
Total Pages: 652
Language: Hindi, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Book_English, Agam, Canon, Conduct, & agam_uttaradhyayan
File Size: 21 MB

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सचित्र उत्तराध्ययन सूत्र
सप्तम अध्ययन [ ६६
CHAPTER 7
PARABLES OF THE LAMB etc.
Foreview
The title of this chapter is Urabhriya (4)-pertaining to Lamb-the offspring of a sheep. This title is given due to the first episode or parable of Lamb.
Samavāyānga and Uttaradhyayana-Niryukti bears the name Urabbhijjam (urabhriya); while in Anuyogadvära its name is Elaïjjam (Elayam).
The word Elayam is found in the first couplet of this chapter.
The words urabhra and elaya are synonyms, bearing the same meaning-child of a sheep (मेमना).
The basic maxim and root of Śramana culture is renouncement and disinclination. Disinclination towards mundane pleasures and sensual enjoyments. The senses and the sensory amusements are not everlasting, they are momentary. Being aware of this fact, even it is very difficult for average man to renounce them.
It is being given to understand that adept may not harm great interests by indulging himself in these meagre and momentary rejoicings.
To express the ill and agonising results of sensual indulgence, the 5 practical instances are mentioned here. Due to the primariness of parables this chapter took the shape as paradigmatic chapter.
1. First Parable-The Pungent Consequences of Desires and Victuals
A rich man possessed a cow and its calf and also tammed a lamb. He gives mere grass to cow and calf for eating; while to lamb gives nourishing food, bathes and loves it by moving his open palm on its body. Within a short period the lamb grown up, big fat and of large belly, fattened and of a plump body.
The calf watching this different behaviour of the owner, being disappointed complains to its mother cow
"Mother! see, the owner how much loves this lamb? How much nourishing diet he gives it to eat? within a few days how fattened became this lamb. And gives mere grass to us. You also give milk to him, still, why the owner does disfavourable behaviour with us.”
The experienced mother, the cow fondling its son, the calf, said
"Dear son! The death of this lamb is very near. It is waiting for its last day. The love and nourishing diet it is getting; behind it lies the mean pleonasm of the owner. You will yourself see the consequences within few days by your own eyes."