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The Topic of the Kriyas (Urges) in Darting of the Arrow
A person,' O Lord! picks up a bow, and having picked up, he picks up an arrow; having picked up the arrow, he takes position (in the warrior's posture called Vaisakha); taking the position, he pulls the arrow up to his ear and shoots the arrow in the sky.
Then that arrow, shot up in the sky, injures, upturns, hurts, destroys, scratches, torments, damages, displaces, and deprives of life whatever animates, living beings, souls and living entities are there. By such act, O Lord! by how many kriyas (urges) does a person is touched?
Gautama! when the person picks up the bow, picks up the arrow, takes...... pulls the arrow up to his ear, and shoots the arrow up in the sky, he indulges in the five kriyas (urges) viz., the urges quâ bodily activity (kāyiki), act of violence or use of weapon (adhikaranikī) malice (prädveşiki), inflicting pain (pāritāpaniki) and killing (prāṇātipātikī).
Also those souls with whose bodies the bow has been manufactured, are touched (involved) by the same five urges. Similarly, those souls with whose bodies the bow-stick, the bow-string, the sinews and the arrow are manufactured are touched by the same five urges. Also those souls with whose bodies the shaft (of the arrow), the feathers (of the arrow), the head (of the arrow), and the sinews (of the arrow) are manufactured are touched with the same five urges.
Bhagavar 5:6:134-135
5.135 aha nam se usu appano guruttãe, bhāriyattãe, gurusambhäriyattäe ahe visasde paccovayamāne jäim tattha päṇāim jāva jīviyāo vavarovei tavam ca nam se purise katikirie?
goyama! jāvam ca nam se usů appano guruyattãe jāva jīviyão vavarovei tavam ca nam se purise käiyäe jäva cauhim kiriyahim putthe. jesim pi ya nam jīvāṇam sarirehim dhaṇā nivvattie te vi jīvā cauhim kiriyahim, dhanupaṇhe cauhim, jīvā cauhim, nhäru cauhim, usu pamcahim-sare, pattane, phale, nhāru pamcahi. je vi ya se jivä ahe paccovayamāṇassa uvaggahe vaṭṭamti te vi ya nam jīvā kāiyāe jāva pamcahim kiriyāhim putthā.
Now, when the arrow, due to its own gravity, its heaviness and its gravitational heaviness, starts falling downward by its own nature, injures, upturns deprive of life whatever animates (5.134) up to living entities are there, by how many urges does the person is touched?
Gautama! when the arrow, due to its own gravity ...... up to living entities there, that person is touched by four urges viz., käyiki ...... up to päritäpaniki. And also those souls, with whose bodies the bow has been manufactured, are touched with four urges, the bow-stick by four, the string by four, the sinews by four, the arrow, shaft, feathers, head and sinew by five. And the souls that become the support of the falling arrow also are touched by five urges, viz., käyiki and the like.
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