Agam 01 Ang 01 Acharang Sutra Aayaro Terapanth

SR No.: 006521
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1981
Total Pages: 472
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_acharang
File Size: 17 MB

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householders i. e. cause violence to the beings of earthbody).
१९. जमिणं विरूवरूवेहि सत्थेहिं पुढवि-कम्म-समारंभेणं पुढविसत्थं समारंभेमाणे अण्णे वणेगरूवे पाणे विहिंसति ।
19.
Jamiņam viruvaruvehim satthehim pudhavi- kammaSamarambheņam pudhavi - sattham samārambhemāņe anne vanegarūve pāņe vihiṁsai.
ĀYĀRO
19. He (pseudo-monk), employing various kinds of weapons, indulges in actions involving earth, (thereby) causing violence to the beings of earth-body. (He causes violence not only to the beings of earth-body, but also) causes violence to different kinds of other beings.
ANNOTATION 19: In this world there are many kinds of beings and many substances. One man's food is another man's poison. A substance which is harmful to a particular kind of beings is termed as weapon for that kind. The term weapon is a general one which includes physical implements as well as processes which when operated upon beings would cause violence to them. The implements or the process may be homologous i. e. composed of the same material as body of the victims or heterologous, i. e. composed of material which is different from the body of the victims or combination of both. Besides physical weapons described here, there is the unrestrained impulse for violence which in itself is a psychic weapon. It should be noted that the psychic weapon is in itself the cause of prāṇātipāta (sin of violence) irrespective of the operation or non-operation of the physical weapons.
The following nine kinds of weapons are enumerated in the Niryukti (the earliest commentary) on the Ayaro:
1. Implements such as plough, pick-axe etc. used for ploughing, digging, etc.;
ii. Horns of deer;
iii. Wood;
iv. Fire;
V.
Excretions;
vi. Homologous weapons, e. g. two different incompatible types of soil, when mixed,kill the earth-being;