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COMPREHENSION AND RENUNCIATION OF WEAPONS
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Le program marafts arATI 56. Sattham cettha aņuvii pāsā. 56. O man! contemplate and visualise weapons which are
capable of killing these (beings of water-body).
x. get FREE PORN 57. Puglho satthaṁ paveiya”. 57. Thus propounded Bhagavân (Mahavira) - "There are
numerous weapons (which can kill) the beings of water
body."
ANNOTATIONS 56-57: The Niryukti enumerates seven kinds of weapons which kill beings of water body as follows:
(1) Drawing water from well, etc. (2) Straining. (3) Washing clothes, etc. (4) Homologous weapons, i.e. water from different
sources, e.g. lake -water and river-water act as
weapons for each other. (5) Heterologous weapons, e.g. soil, oil, alkali, fire,
etc. (6) Combination of 4 and 5, e.g. water mixed with soil. (7) Pyschic weapon, i.e. un-restrained impuise for
vidence.
५८. अदुवा अविण्णादाणं। 58. Aduvā adiņņādāra. 58. Or it amounts to adattādana (i. e., appropriating that
which is not given).
ANNOTATION 58: The Parivrājakas (ascetics belonging to the heretical sects) used to beg animate water with due permission of the owner. Still they were accused by the Jains of indulging in stealing. Their argument was based on the fact that the beings of water-body never consented to anyone depriving them of their lives. Hence, if anyone used or accepted water even after duly taking the permission of the
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