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ADVANCED ASCETICISM (DHUTA)
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तिगिच्छापसंगे अहिंसा-पदं १५. बहुदुक्खा हु जंतवो। Tigicchāpasaṁge ahimsa-padań. 15. Bahudukkha hu ja mtavo. Observance of Non-violence in Medical Treatment 15. Beings suffer legions of woes.
१६. सत्ता कामेहि माणवा। 16. Sattā kā mehim māņavā. 16. (Still) people are attached to sensual pleasures.
ANNOTATIONS 14-16. Beings torture other beings - this is a great terror engendered in this world. The vast host of woes and miseries in this world is also tantamount to great terror. Curiously enough, in spite of being horrified, people are attached to and enjoy the sensual pleasures. १७. अबलेण वहं गच्छंति, सरीरेण पभंगुरेण। 17. Abalena vahaṁ gacchaṁti, sarirena pabha ñgureņa. 17. (Driven by the longing for life), people wish1 to kill
beings for the sake of maintaining this worthless and fraii mortal frame.
१८. अट्टे से बहुदुक्खे, इति बाले पगम्भइ। 18. Atte se bahudukkhe, iti bāle pagabbhai. 18. One, afflicted with pains, undergoes a host of miser
ies. Consequently that ignorant one becomes
1. The verb 'gacchanti, here means 'iccharti'. According
to the author of the Cūrņi, "Kamkhamti, pattharti and gacchamti are all synonymous." See Ac. Cūrņi, p. 205.
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