Illuminator of Jaina Tenets

SR No.: 006924
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Tulsi Acharya
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1985
Total Pages: 252
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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Illuminator of Jaina Tenets
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grāmādişu janānām aucityena vittārjana-vyaya-vivāha-bhojyādiprathānām pārasparikasahayogāder vā ācarapamācāraḥ. teşāṁ ca hitasamraksaņārthaí prayujyamānā ūpāyāḥ-vyavasthā. Să ca kauțumbiki, sāmājikī, rāștriyā, antārāștriyā ceti bahuvidhā. te ca lokadharmaḥ-laukiko vyavahāra ity ucyate, āgame'pi tathādarśanāt, yathā—"gāmadhamme, nagardhamme, rathadhamme, kuladhamme” ity ādi.
(Aph.) The righteousness popular consists in the custom or convention of a village, city, nation, race, caste, age and the like. (X
(Gloss) Custom means such practices as the mores of honestly earning and spending money, marriage, feasting and the like, or mutual co-operation and the like, prevalent among the people of a village and the like. "Convention' consists in the means employed for the protection of their (of village, town and the like) interests. The convention is manifold, being related to family, society, nation or nations interrelated. The customs and convention constitute righteousness (popular), that is popular mores as the word dhamma is used in the sense of righteousness popular in the scripture also. “Righteousness prevalent in a village, righteousness prevalent in a city, righteousness prevalent in a nation, rightousness prevalent in a race, righteousness prevalent in a group, and 80 on."
In some cases of even the righteousness popular, non-violence and the like are practised, and as such, the righteousness proper is not different from the former. But (righteousness proper is to be distinguished) only in respect of the utilisation of the objects that augment (the craving for) enjoyment.
(Note) Even in the execution of righteousness popular a genuine type of non-vio. lence and the like may be practised. In such case there is coincidence of righteousness popular and righteousness proper, so far as the particular act of non-violence is concerned. The difference between righteousness proper and righteousness popular lies in those acts that are practised exclusively for the promotion of worldly prosperity. The act of genuine righteousness involved in righteousness popular are to be distinguished with reference to the result of purification of the soul achieved by those acts.
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प्रेयःसंपादनं बाह्योदय-कारकमस्ति, तेनैतदपि लोकधर्मकक्षायां
sfaatfal 15. preyaḥsampādanam apt.