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(3) Unmodified or not transformed by weapon. Such vegetables are sachit (life bearing).
(4) A larger portion of which is to be discarded.
(5) Stale, rotten, decaying, infected.
A fruit that falls on its own or plucked from tree when ripe or ripened later is called a ripe fruit. Even a ripe fruit is called sachit as long as it contains kernel, seed and peel. When it is cut or pierced with a weapon (knife etc.) or cooked in fire then it comes into the category of transformed by weapon or modified. Half ripe or partially modified fruits are also unacceptable for an ascetic because they are still unmodified and therefore sachit (Vrihatkalpa Sutra, Ch. 1, Aphorism 1, 2, as explained in Kalpasutra by Muni Shri Kanhaiyalalji 'Kamal')
The vegetables and other such things commonly available in a household during that period are mentioned in aphorisms 45 to 59.
The commentator (Vritti) informs that agrabeej is that plant species which has seed at its tip or that whose tip grows into a plant when sown.
Commenting on the phrase 'mahum va majjam va' in aphorism 51, Acharya Shri Atmaramji M. says-old honey, intoxicants or butter should not be taken because decay or fermentation occurs in these and mobile beings are created. Honey and butter are normally acceptable for ascetics but inclusion of 'madya' (intoxicants or wines) with these appears to be a contradiction because everywhere in Agams 'madya' and 'mansa' (meat) are classified as non-eatable and unacceptable. Therefore it appears that here 'madya' may mean intoxicating fruits like mahua or poppy and not wine or beverages.
विशेष शब्दों के अर्थ- सालुयं - उत्पल - कमल का कन्द ( जड़ ) | यह जलज कन्द होता है । विरालियं - पलाशकन्द, विदारिका का कन्द। यह कन्द स्थलज और पत्ते से उत्पन्न होता है। सासवनालियं-सर्षप (सरसों) की नाल । पिप्पलि - कच्ची हरी पीपर। पिप्पल चुण्णं- हरी पीपर को पीसकर उसकी चटनी बनाई जाती है या उसे कूटकर चूर्ण बनाया जाता है, उसे पीपर का चूर्ण कहते हैं। मिरियं - काली या हरी कच्ची मिर्च | सिंगबेरं - कच्चा अदरक । पलंब - लटकने वाला फल ।
आचारांग सूत्र (भाग २)
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Acharanga Sutra (Part 2)
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