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7. Injury to Life 1. The Jainas have declared in this book that injury to life is of five kinds, viz. killing, falsehood, taking what is not given, unchastity and possession of gooda.
. The first door to sin has been declared by the Jinas to be injury to life which in itself is sinful, fierce, fearful, mean and ignoble. It has the following thirty secondary names. (1) injury to life (2) soparation from the body (3) faithlessness (4) killing in various ways (5) an improper act (6) murder (13) death', (14) unrestraint?, (30) abuse of virtues. Such like are the thirty names.
2. Now those commit it who are sinful, unrostrained, uncontrolled, given to causing pain to others, and prejudiced against various kinds of movable and immovable creatures.
Thus sinfully inclined persons commit injury to life. Taking delight in tales about injury to life, they are pleased after conmiting sin. Not knowing the multifarious retributive development of that sin, they (i. e, sinners) prolong their existence in hell or among lower creatures which is extremely dreadful, incessantly pain-giving, and full of many troubles lasting for a considerable time.
3. At the completion of their age, and falling from this world of men, they are reborn in great
1. The intermediate ones have been loft out.
2. Unrestraint of Benso-organs and of the mind is the chief source of sin.
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