Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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AKARANGA SUTRA.
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) mahâvargakriya.' (11)
7. Here, in the east, &c. They accordingly give, for the sake of many sorts of Sramanas1, 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) sâvadyakriyâ.' (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) mahâsâvadyakriya.' (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 Silânka's commentary, but also in that of the Sthânânga Sûtra, as Dr. Leumann informs me: Niggamtha, Sakka, Tâvasa, Gerua, Âgîva pamkahâ samanâ. Nirgranthas, Sakyas, Tâpasas, Gairikas, Âgîvakas.
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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.