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Exposition: The seventh vow is about limit of articles of daily consumption which includes articles that can be consumed only once (food etc.) and articles then can be used repeatedly. Five digressions that may occur are as under:
(1) In spite of the practice of resolve of not taking any sachit (organic) thing, in case one has consumed such thing (2) to consume a thing in which sachit thing is mixed (3) to consume a thing which is yet not fully cooked (4) to consume a thing which is badly cooked (5) to consume a thing in which element to be discarded is more than the one that can be consumed I feel sorry for such faults.
There are fifteen trades that cause great violence to living being. They are called Karmadan. In case I may have committed any fault by taking up such trade, I repent for the same. The nature of 15 Karmadans is as foilows
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To have business of preparing charcoal from wood.
To get the forest cut.
To engage in business of preparing bullock-carts cars and the like.
To give camel, bullocks, horses and the like on hire.
To quarry stone by blasting the earth.
To engage in business involving sale of articles prepared from the tusk of elephants, teeth of tiger and the like.
To trade in liqueur or gum.
To trade in wines and such like intoxicants.
To trade in locks of hair of animals and birds or to trade in birds, animals and human beings.
(10) To trade in opium and suchlike intoxicants or to trade in weapons such as swords, guns used for killing living beings.
(11) To trade in crushing oilseeds.
(12) To engage in business involving making bullocks, horses and the like infertilę.
(13) To start fire in the fields for cleaning the forest or for getting more foodgrain from the fields,
(14) To trade in drying the wells, the ponds.
(15) To nourish violent anaimals or prostitutes or persons of bad character for their trads.
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Ist Chp.: Samayik
