Ardha Magadhi Reader

SR No.: 006743
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: B D Jain
Publisher: Shri Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 246
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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ASCETICS AND HERMITS
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many years, and afterwards dying in the death-month, are re-born ' among luminary gods, their period being a paliovama increased by a hundred thousand years.
Are they true worshippers ? No, that is not so.
2. The following are the ordained monks? found in cities down to suburbs, as for instance, those who make merriment, who walk in a peculiar manner causing others to laugh, who talk irrelevantly, who like musical pleasures, who are accustomed to dancing. Living in this way they lead an acetic's life for many years, and afterwards, neither confessing their sins nor retreating therefrom, they die in the death-month, and are reborn as gods among the pleasure-loving gods in the Sohamma region at the best. There is their course, and there is their stay. The rest are the same except that their period is a paliovama increased by a hundred thousand years.
3. The following are the wandering asceties 3 found in cities down to suburbs, as for instance, the followers of the Sankhya doctrine, the followers of the Yoga doctrine, the followers of Kapila, the followers of Bhrigu, Hamsas, Paramahamsas, Bahu. udakas, Kuțívratas, devotees of Krishņa. Among them eight are the Brahman ascetics viz. Kanha, Kara.
1. The gods and denizens of hell are not born like mortals.
They simply rise into their conditions--the gods on soft co... Wes while denizens of hell 'in narrow vessels which they burst open.
2. They seem to belong to non-Brahmanic school. 3. The fourth Asrama or order of religious life.
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