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ÂKÂRÂNGA SÚTRA.
If the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., and live in them which are ceded by other people (they should be warned): O longlived one! that (lodging is infected by the sin called) mahầvargakriya.' (11)
7. Here, in the east, &c. They accordingly give, for the sake of many sorts of Sramanas', after having well counted them, lodging-places, viz. workshops, &c. If the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., and live in them which are ceded by other people (they should be warned):
O long-lived one! that (lodging is infected by the sin called) sâvadyakriya.' (12)
8. Here, in the east, &c. They accordingly prepare, for the sake of one sort of Sramanas, lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., for which purpose great injury is done to the earth, water, fire, wind-bodies, plants, and animals, great injury, great cruelty, great and manifold sinful acts; by wasting cold water or strewing (the ground), smearing it with cowdung, shutting the doors and securing the bed, lighting a fire. If the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., and lead in such ceded lodgings an ambiguous ? life (they should be warned): 'O longlived one! that (lodging is infected by the sin called) maha savadyakriya.' (13)
9. But if the lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., are 1 There are five sorts of Sramanas enumerated in the following hemistich, which occurs not only in Silanka's commentary, but also in that of the Sthânânga Sätra, as Dr. Leumann informs me: Niggamtha, Sakka, Tavasa, Gerua, Agîva pamkahâ samanâ. Nirgranthas, Sâkyas, Tapasas, Gairikas, Agîvakas.
. Dupakkham te kamma sevamti, lit. use twofold work; the meaning is, according to the commentary, that they act like householders, though they make a show of monastic life.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |