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Jainism.
irreligious. So, those who desire piety should be compassionate towords beings. Non-killing, Truth, Non-stealing, Celibacy-in these four, every duty has been included."*
About the non-eatables in Jainism, the Maha Bharat says:- " Pilgrimage, meditation and penance are in vain for those who use intoxicants, take their dinners at night and who eat roots of trees."
The Bhagavat says with regard to the same subject:
Abandoning intoxicants, animal food and honey; giving up eating the five Udumbars ( fruits full of minute lives ); not eating at
* अहिंसालक्षणो धर्मो ह्यधर्मः प्राणिनां वधः ॥ तस्माद्धर्मार्थिभिौके कर्तव्या प्राणिनां दया १
अहिंसा सत्यमस्तेयं तथा मैथुनवर्जनम् ॥ चतुर्वेत्तेषुसूक्तेषु सर्वे धर्माः प्रकीर्तिताः २ + मद्यमासाशनं रात्रौ भोजनं कन्दभक्षणम् ॥
ये कुर्वन्ति वृथा तेषां तीर्थयात्रा जपस्तपः १.
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