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AN EPITOME OF JAINISM (3) Adattadan or stealing-This is
another kind of committing sin. It not only means taking of another's belongings but means also of appropriating or keeping lost articles without any public declaration, accepting of bribes, cheating, smuggling and the like
forms of action. (4) Abrahmacharya or Unchastity-Chas
tity consists, as ordinarily conceived, in one's being true to another in body, mind and speech, when these two are related as man and wife. And with the monks who are forbidden to take to wife, it, consists in being free from any kind of erotic thouhgt and pleasure. Unchastity, therefore, consists in violation of these
rules of conduct. (5) Parigraha or Covetousness-This is a
kind of intense attachment to one's belongings so much so that if anything is lost, he gives himself up to excessive grief. Parigraha
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