$JES 401 Jain Philosophy and Practice 2 Level 4 Book

Author(s): JAINA Education Committee
Publisher: JAINA Education Committee

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production involves large scale violence, and limiting the quantity, of one's use, of even those things whose production involves very little violence.
Other Fifteen Transgressions (Atichär) of this Vow:
This Vrata also deals with 15 forbidden occupations and avocations. Some of them are obviously unavoidable in the present context. The traditional list is as under:
Angära Karma
Vana Karma
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Shakata Karma
Bhätaka Karma
Profession of transportation); Includes making a livelihood by carting goods in vehicles or on horses, oxen, buffaloes, camels, mules or donkeys Sphotaka Karma Profession involving hewing & digging Include the mining, quarrying, and
excavating for other purposes
Danta Vänijya
Laksa Vänijya
Rasa Vänijya
Kesa Vänijya
Visha Vänijya
Yantra Pillana Vänijya
Nirlanchhana Karma
Davägni Däna Karma
Jal Soshana Karma
Profession involving large scale use of fire: This covers kilns, ovens, furnaces, smelting and refining metals, bricks making, pottery, etc. Profession involving cutting forests): This covers timber, setting the forest a blaze, cleaning the fields by burning grass, etc.
Asati - Poshana Karma
Profession involving vehicles): This includes the construction, sale and renting of animal drawn carts, and other vehicles
Profession involving teeth and other animal parts: This covers trades in fur, wool, musk, ivory, hides, teeth, bones and other animal parts
Profession involving chemical substances: Includes lac (shellac), wax, red arsenic, (Manah-sila), indigo, borax (Tankana), Dhätaki etc.
Profession involving provocative liquids: Includes the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol, honey, fat (obtained from meat), butter, oil, meat,
etc.
Profession involving human beings and animals): Includes the buying and selling of slave girls and animals
Profession involving poisons): This implies a ban on trade in all poisons and weapons that are potentially dangerous to life
Profession involving heavy use of machines. This covers operating mills and presses for crushing sugar cane and for extracting oil from seeds, nuts and vegetables. Also included are businesses of such articles as grindstones, pestles, and mortars
Profession involving cutting parts of animals: Includes the gelding of bulls and other animals. Also includes the branding, docking, nose piercing, and cutting off the ears and dewlaps of livestock
Profession involving destruction: Includes the work of setting up fire to burn forests and farmlands
Profession involving drying of other resources: This covers drying of wells, tanks, lakes and other reservoirs
Profession involving breeding and rearing: Running brothel houses. Also included are the breeding and keeping of destructive animals and birds such as parrots, mynahs, peacocks
08. Anartha-danda Parimäna-vrata (Avoidance of Purposeless Activities)
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