Aloyana

Author(s): Hiraji Swami, Gulabchandraji
Publisher: Pradyuman Vora

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If I have been guilty of any wrongdoing in respect of the fifteen type of trades which involve more sinful activities, I reflect on and confess for committing sinful businesses.
1. Businesses related to use of fire:
I may have prepared or operated furnaces for the making of lime, bricks, pantiles or charcoal, which are produced in a furnace, a potter's furnace for baking earthen wares, or furnaces of blacksmith, corn- parcher, wine-dealer, cloth-printer, goldsmith, coppersmith, confectioner, or a dyer, etc., to keep the fire burning day and night, or the boiler to operate mill, gin, or a press.
2. Businesses related to cutting forests, trees, and plants:
I may cut green trees off, or have plucked fruits and flowers, or I have cut the branches of plants, or have dug out the roots and bulbs; or have carried out the profession of a vegetable dealer, a woodcutter, a gardener, etc., or have plucked out green grass or lawn, or weeded out useless grass.
3. Businesses related to fermentation:
I may have fermented wine, indigo, leather, or fermented for preparing sweets like jalebi, halva, etc., or prepared salted pickles, or done any other activities to cause fermentation.
4. Businesses related renting bulls, carts, etc.:
I might have had businesses related to bulls, camels, horses, donkeys, mules, or malebuffaloes, and they may have been tortured or not attended rightly.
5. Businesses related to breaking or digging ground or earth:
I might have broken open the layers of the earth with a plough, a harrow, a crow-bar, or a spade, etc., or dug, or have dug water reservoirs like wells, step-wells, lakes, and pools; or dug oil wells or mines of coal or metals; or followed the vocation of a clay- digger, mason, or a tiller, etc.
6. Businesses related to tusks or bones, etc.:
I might have traded in elephant tusks, nails, tortoise-shells, rhinos, or in the bones of cows, buffaloes, etc.
7. Businesses related to hairs, wool, or skin, etc.:
I might have pursued the vocation of a barber, or a butcher or traded in bipeds or quadrupeds, or dealt in the hair of the yak, or in wool, feathers, furs, fatty clothes, or leathers.
8. Businesses related to meat, liquor, honey, lard, etc.:
I might have had businesses in meat, wine, fermented palm-juice, honey, butter, animal oil, ghee, varnish, fat, jaggery, white sugar, gelatin, celluloid film products, etc.
9. Businesses related sealing wax:
I might have done trading in sealing wax.
10. Businesses related to poisonous substances:
I might have traded in poisons like arsenic salts, opium, etc., or the poisons of snakes, chameleons, iguanas, and frogs, etc.; or traded in swords, pistols, daggers, knives, poniards, guns, spears, lances, or any violent weapons and ammunition.
11. Businesses related to crush or extract juice:
I might have conducted sugar-cane or cottonseeds press, or worked on machines like lathes mills, oil mills, flour mills, presses for cotton-bales, pounding machines, textile mills, and gins, etc., in which many small insects are killed.