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

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________________ I might have ill-matched pairs by falsely presenting a younger bride or a groom to be older. I might have told a lie concerning cattle like cows and buffaloes, or about land. Therefore, I might have resorted to fraud or deceit; or disowned a transaction in order to misappropriate someone's deposit or given completely false witness, or censured someone, or betrayed someone, or laid false blame on someone, or exposed someone's secret blemishes. I might have resorted to verbal beating, thrashing, scolding or used foul, abusive, harsh, unpleasant, and painful language. I might have given wrong or harmful advice, abused someone, spoken insultingly to gurus, or addressed people older than myself insolently. I could have made fun of others, scoffed or gesticulated at them, in order to humiliate them. I might have falsely praised myself or boasted about myself; or unduly praised a person out of greed for money; and might have falsely showered praise on a virtueless man to secure my selfish interest. I might have given a promise and not kept it; or broken an oath taken in the presence of the jury. I might have spoken irrelevantly. I might have distressed my own or someone else's soul by anger, or started a quarrel by speaking contemptible words. I might have done backbiting, or slandered others. I might have uttered gross lies with deceit and fraud. I might, as an astrologer, have made evil forecasts. As a physician, I might have distressed the people by telling the patients or relatives some news about deadly diseases. NON-STEALING I reflect on and confess wrongdoings in respect of the third vow, of abstaining from stealing. If I have been guilty of wrongdoings in respect of it, then I request to be forgiven and my sins nullified. I might have bought stolen articles, or helped thieves, taken them for good men; or gone to or kept relations with an enemy country in spite of the state's prohibition; or sold something as per old and worn out weights and measuring tools, and purchased per new weights and measuring tools; or showed a good article but delivered an inferior one, or delivered goods after adulterating them. I might have cheated some persons by bringing about a discord among friends, conceived of killing relatives like a brother or a nephew for the sake of money. I might have misappropriated deposits, accomplished my own interest at the cost of others', or accepted a bribe, or allowed other's things to be robbed or stolen by unfair means. I might have committed breach of trust for achieving my own interest, or cruelly deprived someone of his livelihood due to enmity or bitterness. I might have been unfair while dividing property, or prepared false account books or made false accounts. I could have made unfair appropriation from my employer's property. As a broker, I might have squandered away money by manipulating the prices of the goods ordered, or secretly appropriated a portion of the rate over and above the brokerage. I might have received more than the stipulated interest on money or a thing rented on interest. I could have taken possession of things lying in another's field or threshing ground. I might have made counterfeit coins or ornaments, or embezzled or tempered with charity funds, or announced a charitable fund but not laid the amount for it aside, and not given interest on it. If at all it is laid aside, I might have gotten my personal work done with the amount of the charity or through the institutions run from charity. I might have done manipulation of accounts after working as a trustee in some institution or collected money by cheating people in the name of charity. I might have made my own cattle trespass on and graze in other's fields, or stolen green corns, stalks, or vegetables from the farm of someone else, or opened some one's package with the intent to commit theft, or committed housebreaking. I might have appropriated a thing lying on the road, or encroached on the neighbor's land, and merged it with my own. As a robber, I might have committed robbery or decoitry. I might have practiced deceit, or committed fraud, or breach of trust. SENSUAL PLEASURE

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