Agam 39 Chhed 06 Mahanishith Sutra

Author(s): Punyavijay, Rupendrakumar Pagariya, Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: Prakrit Granth Parishad

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MAHĀNISIHA STUDIES AND EDITION IN GERMANY
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12. vss.91-111. Confession, if it is insufficient because of silence, or performed with special atention or with joylessness, causes further stay in the samsāra. Here special names are attached to the aloyaga for individual cases.
14. vss. 112-144. Numerous nuns (samani) attain freedom from samsāra through confession and repentance. As samaņi-kevali they are given appellations like those of the monks (in 11) and their good intentions described.
15-17. vss. 145-160. Confessions not enough in the case of nuns. Hence the results as above (12).
18-19. vss. 161-173. Bodily pains coming from outside seem to be more bearable than asceticism and self-control to some persons. They are, therefore, not capable to confess a sin. Also a wrong-doer keeps hard silence even if the king would reward his confession.
20-27. vss. 174-222. Praise of the sincere confession and of all virtues of monks. After the colophon follows the excuse (see 19.1).
Chep.II. Kamma-vivcīga-vägaraņa. 209 ślokas with a long prose passage inserted.
1-2. vss.1-28. Description of the suffering of all living beings in the world. Even the gods suffer because they know that their majesty does not last for ever. The types of suffering, their duration and their strength.
3-6. vss.29-99. The killing of a lice as an example of a bad deed, and its results. Murder in general, lying, stealing, unchastity, and joy of possession. Different lower and higher forms of existence as result of bad deeds.
7. vss.100-109. About karman, its binding force for all beings, except for siddha, jogi and selesi. Its culmination as a sum total of all bad deeds.
8. vss. 110-120. The obstruction of the influx of karman, the asceticism, "Leidenschaftslosigkeit" and ultimately mokşa.
9. vss. 121-146. Some do not believe in the wholesomeness of the obstruction of the influx of karman. No being enjoys peace even in sleep as long as all karman is not destroyed through asceticism and self-control. All beings suffer continuously pain and have at no moment peace. To have a lice in hair is a small evil; it does not mean harm. One should, therefore, allow it to move at will, and not incur pains in hell and permanent insteadiness.
10-24. vss. 147-155 as change-over to prose passages. Avoiding of the female, and that too of every woman irrespective of the fact whether she belongs to the order or not, even of female animals. - Prose: Questions of Goyama, answers of the Bhagavat. One should neither think of nor speak, stay or walk with a woman, because a man will be infatuated by a woman, even if she be a nun, by her nature; her mind will be confused by her desire for sexual intercourse, she does not think about the results, her body totters and falls down. This situation is misused by a man. The sexual constitution of a