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had to seek the superior principle of the stable pleasure which they found in repose, peace or insensibility so much so that they thought paramount good to consist in "the absence of suffering" or indolentia (dukhabhaba).
Thus Papa being found to consist in Subreption (mithyatva) and perversity (duhshilatva) as manifest in bad-will, the Jain moralists hold that liberty of vice manifests itself in and through the eighteen different forms of action as in the following.— (1) Fiva Hinsha-this means crushing out the organic energies of an embodied soul. 'Ahimsa parama dharma'-non-killing of life is the cardinal principle of all true religiosity.' Even the Mimånsaka atheists teach, "må himsyat sarva bhutani" which means don't kill any life. The only difference between the Jain moralists and Mimånsaka sages in this respect of himsd, is that former take an uncompromising attitude in positively prohibiting the taking of any life; while the
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Mith y a tva
and Dushila
tva consti
tute Papa.
