History of Canonical Literature of Jainas

Author(s): Hiralal R Kapadia, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: Prakrit Text Society Ahmedabad

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THE CANONICAL LITERATURE OF THE JAINAS
lust and pleasure for what they are 14, 16f. 22-25C/3 and, full of equanimity, withdraws himself unto himself 16, 10-22.C/4 For he knows that the passions as they keep on cropping up stand related to one another and constitute the ground for a new birth and a new death. 16, 23. 17, 15.C/5.
4. Sammattam A. Prose-Style : Defence of the prohibition against killing and misutilising the living beings - in opposition to those who allow both. 17, 16-23. 18, 14-16. 18-20. 22-25. 19, 1(anao)-4. 4-8. 20, 20f. 23(saccamsi)-25.
B. Śloka-Style : The release from the sense-world and its influences; as also the chastization. 17, 24. 18, 3. 19, 17(iha)-20. 27. 29. 20, 16. 19. 26.
C. Tristubh-Style : Exhortation not to work out a new existence through wishes and acts. 18, 4-13. 17. 21. 25 (ettham) 19, 4 (ettham) 9-17. 21-26. 28. 20, 17f. 22f.
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5. Loga-sāro (Āvanti) A. Prose-Style : For and against injury, violence and greediness, 20, 27f. 21, 12. 24f. 22, 11-14. 24f.
B. śloka-Style : Energy and knowledge - (1) The (young) monk with energy and resistance-power. Besides general warnings against renewed yielding to the greed there are enumerated as particular cases – the sexual intercourse 20, 28-31. 21, 6-8B/1a, the passions arising in the heart of the lonely and caused by nobody 21, 16-19. 26. 22, 4 B/1b, the wish to mitigate the difficulties of monkhood 22, 5-10. 15. 21-23. 26. 23, 5. 7-10. 24-30.B/1c. (2) The monk full of knowledge and firmness in faith 24, 1. 25, 28B/2. (3) A monk must possess in equal degree energy and insight, knowledge of the doctrine (pavāya) and obedience in relation to the instructions (niddesa). For in the eyes of one who knows all memories, all qualities and all stirrings of the world sink into nothingness. 25, 29. 26, 24.B/3.
C. Tristubh-Style : Doubt and lingering in the midway are ruinous while sure knowledge and its application lead to liberation 21, 1-5. 9-11. 13-15. 19-23 22, 16-20. 23, 6. 11-24.