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initiated in the discipline of the Jina do not take to fanning. The reason is twofold: they have attained tranquillity and they have also the competence to practise self-restraint. Tranquillity: The calming down of the passions. Competent to practise self-restriant. Free from lust and hatred or free from attachment to body. It also means monks with their heart melted by compassion. Such persons are tranquil even in hot summer. Therefore they do not need to get tranquillity by fanning which involves injury to air-bodied beings. 1.150 lajjamāṇā pudho pása. 1.151 anagārā motti ege pavayamāņā.
Look at various self-restrained people ashamed of their violent
activities. Some people style themselves as homeless mendicants. Bhāsyam Sūtras 150, 151 See Sūtra 17,18 1.152 jamiņam virūvarūvehim satthehim vāukamma-samārambhenam
vāusattham samārambhamāne anne vanegarūve pāne vihimsati. They indulge in violent actions to air-bodied beings with various weapons, which involve destruction of various other
classes of beings. Bhāsyam Sutra 152 In the Niryukti, the following are mentioned as the weapons that cause injury to the air-bodied beings: 1. The generator of air current, viz. Fan, palm fan, winnowing basket,
chowrie, leaf, corner of a garment. 2. Stationing oneself: It means standing against the air current, when
one is perspiring. 3. Fragrance of sandalwood and the fragrant root of the plant
Andropogon muricatus, etc. 4. Fire: Its flame and heat.
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