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comparatively smaller constituents. A fruit is made up of skin, pith, seed, juice, etc.
In these, verses words like bahuatthiyam and animisam have dual meanings. The other meanings are connected with meat products. This has confused many scholars who have translated these terms as 'lump of flesh with many bone pieces' and 'fish with many scales and thorns'. Acharyashri Atmaram ji M. has emphatically denied this and has translated them as specific scaly and thorny fruits and vegetables. He argues that the following part of the verse lists things of plant origin, so a reference to meat would be against the conventional style of not mixing categories. The entire chapter is about the faults in the things otherwise acceptable to ascetics and so meat or things of animal origin are completely beyond the scope of this chapter. Moreover, there are numerous vegetables having the names of animals merely because of some superficial similarities in attributes. Some examples from Ayurveda are-Brahmani (Brahmin lady), Kumari (young woman), Marjari (cat), and Kapoti (pigeon). It would be wrong and confusing to translate them literally without seeing the context. (Dashavaikalik Sutra by Acharyashri Atmaram ji M., page 212)
७५ : तहेवुच्चावयं पाणं अदुवा वारधोअणं।
संसेइमं चाउलोदगं अहुणाधोअं विवज्जए॥ जिस प्रकार अशन भोजन के विषय में कहा गया है, उसी प्रकार उच्च- । (स्वादिष्ट या श्रेष्ठ जैसे द्राक्षादि का पानी) और अवच (बेस्वाद या खराब कांजी आदि का पानी) जल, गुड़ के थड़े की धोवन, आटे की धोवन, चावलों की धोवन का पानी इत्यादि तत्काल की धोवन का पानी मुनि कदापि ग्रहण न करे॥७५॥
75. As it is said about solid food, so the ascetic should also never accept high quality fluids (tasty and nutritious drinks like grape juice) and low quality fluids (drinks with bad taste like stale mustard water), wash of jaggery vessels, flour wash, rice wash and any other fresh wash. 097 37eztu : Pusqun (7879 JET45) Fifth Chapter : Pindaishana (Ist Section) 984
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