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trained, what to speak of his movement and other activities, even the movement of his eyes is done with the greatest precaution. It is for this that he has now only one activity called 'cautious movement' (iryapathiki). Its stages have been indicated in the Sūtra itself.
Particularly significant is the word attatta sambudassa. It means one who has restrained self by self. Even such a person acquires karma, what to speak of one who is not at all restrained. The latter sinks like a boat with a hundred small holes and a hundred big holes.
19. The description in the Jivābhigama Sūtra is as follows : In the Salt Sea, in four directions, there are four mahāpātāla kala śas (subterranean giant-pitchers). One-third of each pitcher at the bottom contains air, one-third in the middle contains air and water and the remaining one-third at the top contains water only. These four pitchers are of a gigantic size. These apart, there are 7884 smaller pitchers called pätāla kala śas. The big pitchers are 1,00,000 yojanas each and the small ones are 1000 yojanas each. Disturbances in these pitchers cause rising and falling tides in the Salt Sea. On a point of enquiry from Gautama viz., why the Salt Sea did not, wash out the whole of Jambū-dvīpa, Mahāvīra said,
“This does not happen because of the impact of the Jinas, and also because of the location of the sphere and the influence of the sphere."
20. Ten parts of a tree are : root, trunk, branch, bark, twig, sprout, leaf, flower, fruit and seed. By two's, these ten give forty-five forms, such as,
root-trunk, root-branch, root-bark, root-twig, root-sprout, root-leaf, root-flower, root-fruit, root-seed—9 forms ;
trunk-branch, trunk-bark, trunk-twig, trunk-sprout, trunkleaf, trunk-flower, trunk-fruit, trunk-seed-8 forms;
branch-bark, branch-twig, branch-sprout, branch-leaf, branchflower, branch-fruit, branch-seed-7 forms;
