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vastutas tu prarohavasthānukulyāpannam yavādikam eva bhāṣyakariyapratyudaharaṇasthitayavaśabdena grhyate/ata eva mule (i.e. in the Siddhāntakaumudi) prarohanukulyadyotanartham bharjitavyāvṛttaye tatkāryasasyapadopādānam samgacchate | tatra sasyapadena tadānukulyam yavānām dyotyate tādṛśānām caitanyam abhyupagatam iti tadbhakṣaṇe 'nkurādirupena pravṛddhyabhāvarūpahimsā teṣām eva bhavati | evam ca sasye parakiyatvaviseṣaṇam anupadeyam eva | sasyānām api himsāyā darsitatvāt | ata eva bhāṣye udaharane vinaṣṭaprarohāvasthabodhakapinḍipadopādānam, pratyudaharane ca prarohavastḥānukulabijasādharaṇayavapadopādānam ca svarasata upapadyate | bhāṣyasvaraso 'py adyavyākhyāyām eveti vadatā Uddyotakṛtapy ayam arthaḥ sphutikṛta iti bodhyam .
66 See fn. 68.
67 cf. Bhāgavata Hari Sastri's explanation of the expression himsänge (Chitraprabha. A Commentary of Haridikshita's Laghusabdaratna, ed. by Tātā Subbaraya Sastri, Waltair 1932, p. 391, 22 f.): pranaviyogaphalake galadhodeśasamyogānukulavyāpāre ity arthaḥ //. In reality, however, the injurious act of eating starts with the tearing off of the barley plants from the lower part of the halm.
68 "The Origin of ahimsa' in: Mélanges d'indianisme à la mémoire de Louis Renou, Paris 1968, p. 625-655.-'Seeds capable of germination' etc. in particular are referred to at pp. 626, 635, 638, 648. At p. 635 Schmidt refers to Baudh. Dh.S. 3.2.13 (tuṣavihīnāms tanḍulan icchati sajjanebhyo bijāni vā) quoted by him in fn. 5 and commented upon by the remark: 'tuşavihina refers probably to bījāni, too.' The sutra together with this remark made me realize that I was not at all well up in the relevant botanical facts. It was not easy to get the necessary information, but by consulting various botanists I think I got a clearer picture: Rice is in India not only traditionally stored in the form of paddy, i.e. rice in the husk, (cf. e.g. The Wealth of India, Raw Materials, Vol. VII: N- Po, New Delhi 1966, p. 164), but it is the unhusked rice which is also sown. This is, unfortunately, in the dictionary just referred to nowhere stated explicitly, but clearly implied e.g. by a statement like that at p. 139 that some varieties of rice 'finish germination by 2-3 days after sowing while others take about a week, the rapidity of germination being probably related to the thickness and hairiness of the husk'. Indeed, mechanically removing the husk of rice grains
