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INTRODUCTION TO THE PICTURES
The scenes for not following the five trades: (a) Ingalkarma (Coal-merchant) (b) Vanakarma (Trade of Forestry) (c) Sadikarma (driving carts etc) (d) Bhattikarma (Trade of preparing Bhatthas of bricks etc.) (e) Phodikarma
(Trade of digging earth etc.) 2. The scenes of not following other five trades :
(a) Dantvanijya (Trade of elephant tusks). (b) Lakhavanijya (Trade of Lac) (c) Rasvanijya (Trade of chemicals) (d) Keshavanijya (Hair Cutting sallon etc). (e) Vishavanijya
(Trade of selling poisonous drugs). 3. The scenes of further five trades not to be followed :
(a) Crushing with machines (corn-crushing mills etc). (b) Nilanchank karma (Trade of carving letters, pictures etc. on human bodies) (c) Davkarma (setting fire in a forest) (d) Shoshankarma (Exploiting others) (e) Asatiposhakarma
(Trade of sheltering women of bad conduct). 4. The scenes of the explanation of the rules of Apakaya
(water beings), Vanspatikaya (Plant beings and
horse-carriages etc. included in the fourteen) rules. 5. Suvrat Sheth in Paushadha Vrata-Thieves commit a theft, his
house is on fire, still he is undisturbed and remains steady
(All these scenes). 6. The scenes of the ten shravakas-Anand, Kamdev etc. and
the Shravikas accepting 12 vows in the presence of Lord (Mahavir).
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