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________________ JAINISM IN NORTH INDIA this, and so being actuated with a high scnse of duty he told the butcher : सूना चिमुख मत् / दास्पेहमयमर्थस्य लोभात्त्वमसि सोनिकः // "If you leave your profession, I shall bestow calth on you, for it is through greed of wealth that you are a butcher." This request on the part of the king liad no effect on Kalasaukarika. With all light-mindedness he replied : मृनाया ननु को दोपो मया जीयन्ति मानवा' / at a Parit ! "What harm is there in butchery by which human beings subsist? I am not going to leave it." Thus when the king saw that there was no way open to him he put lum into a dark well, where he was left hanging the whole night; but even there the butcher's mentality led him to draw figures of animals on the wall of the well and destroy them then and there. After this he caught some dangerous disease and went to hell Just after the death of his father Sulasa's relatives gathered around him and tried to persuade him to continue the family profession, but he told them " As life is dear to me so also is the case with other animals, and having seen such fruits who would be prepared to live by killing? " All this had little or no effect on Sulasa's relatives, and they even showed their readiness to share the fruits of his life. Then Sulasa, pretending to kill a buffalo, gave a stroke with his father's axe on his leg and fell senseless on the ground. After a short time he regained consciousness and addressed his relatives. ... great na famiga # 297171".. Relatives! You (now) share my pain," but they could do nothing more than merely console him. Then he again told them, as if reminding them of their orginal promise: ... atalaia wegalfanaar CHUA "If you cannot take this much misery how can you the miseries of hell?" Thus Sulasa won over his relatives to his way of thinking, and having taken the twelve vows of the Jainas went to heaven. ) 1 Hemocendm, Yogadastra (with Ins own commentary), chap u, v 80, pp 01-95 Very often heaven 19 taken to inean Molsha, but it is not so To the Jainas Moksha 25 that stage from which the soul has never to return According to Jaimsm there is a limit to life in heaven, but when the soul reaches Moksha it enjoys bliss for ever 48
| SR No. | 011067 |
| Book Title | Jainism in North India |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chimanlal J Shah |
| Publisher | Longmans Green and Compny London |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 66 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 3 MB |