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9.
Rasa Vānijya
10. Visa Vänijya
Business relating to Making ghee, oil, butter and
honey, alcoholic drinks and selling them
rasas or tasty liquids etc. Business in poisons
11. Yantrapilana Karma Relating to
machinery
14. Saradahatalaya Sosaṇayā
15. Astījana poṣaṇatā
12. Nirlancana Karma Relating to animals Cutting the limbs of and birds
Burning and
13. Dava Daha Karma (Dauggidāvanaya) demolition
Drying up of wells,ponds Etc.
Manufacturing different kinds of poisons or poisonous substances or destructive weapons and dealing in them.
Running industries.
with various kinds of machines selling them or getting them run for hire.
Running a brothel for livelihood
animals and birds, drenching them in water or castrating
them
Setting fire to things.
or burning things such as forests, houses etc., out of enmity or spite
Drying up the ponds for irrigation of crop.
Keeping animals,
birds etc. and showing them as an amusement for earning money. Carrying on business in meat, eggs etc.
Historians feel that the Jain community abiding by the above prohibitions could not engage itself in several occupations, such as farming, industry, mining etc which damages environment. It thus advocates the bane on such farming which degrade soil or bane industry which pollutes environment or bane the activities which exploits the child or female. The economic activities under jainisim nurtures nature and environment. One of the reasons why there is a dominant concentration of Jains in indigenous money-lending and hire purchase is because money-lending business does not anywhere violate any of the above prohibitions. The occupations which exploit others, which pollutes environment, which damages environment and soil are all prohibited through code of conducts. It thus allows only those occupations which are not only free from violence but
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