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Such activities are of five types, physical, instrumental, etc., whose further division gives twenty-five types. The Prajñapaņå Sūtra, Pada one, has an exbaustive treatment on the subject.
Q. 203. There are three modes, to do, to order, to approve, and three instruments, mind, body and speech. They give nine alternatives as follows :
3 modes and 3 instruments, 3 modes and 2 instruments, 3 modes and 1 instrument, 2 modes and 3 instruments, 2 modes and 2 instruments, 2 modes and 1 jpstrument, 1 mode and 3 instruments, 1 mode and 2 instruments, 1 mode and 1 instrument, total 9.
Through permutation and combination, they take 49. forms. Multiply them by 3, past, present and future, and this gives 147 forms. This much for each kiriya, so that for five, the total will be 735 forms.
Q. 206. The word karmádāna implies deeds which give karma bondage. The list containing 15 items shows the line of business prohibited for the Jainas. The list includes virtually everything, even the use of machinery, the only important exceptions being money-lending and acting as a broker or middleman,
Q. 208. In the Jaina context, the four words, asanapana-khayima-sāyima go toge ber. Asana stands for anything that satisfies hunger ; pāņa stands for anything which quenches thirst; khåyima stands for anything which, like milk, meets both hunger and thirst ; sayima neither satisfies hunger nor quenches tbirst, though like betel it may impart taste to the mouth.
Q. 208. In the three questions, the word tahārubam occurs thrice. The first two refer to a Jaipa monk, wbile the last one to a monk of some heretical order. In both the cases, the donor is a follower of the one or the other, Hence the
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