Book Title: Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra
Author(s): Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller

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________________ LECTURE XIX. 97 severe, horrible, intolerable, dreadful, and formidable pain. (72) O father, infinitely more painful is the suffering in hell than any suffering in the world of men. (73) 'In every kind of existence I have undergone suffering which was not interrupted by a moment's reprieve' (74) To him his parents said : "Son, a man is free to enter the order, but it causes misery to a Sramana that he may not remedy any ailings.” (75) He answered : O father and mother, it is even thus as you have plainly told; but who takes care of beasts and birds in the woods ? (76) As a wild animal? by itself roams about in the woods, thus I shall practise the Law by controlling myself and doing penance. (77) When in a large forest a wild animal falls very sick at the foot of a tree, who is there to cure it? (78) Or who will give it medicine? or who will inquire after its health ? or who will get food and drink for it, and feed it? (79) When it is in perfect health, it will roam about in woods and on the shores of) lakes in search of food and drink. (80) When it has eaten and drunk in woods and lakes, it will walk about and go to rest according to the habits of wild animals. (81) 'In the same way a pious monk goes to many places and walks about just as the animals, but afterwards he goes to the upper regions. (82) Miga = mriga, literally 'antetope;' but here as frequently the word has apparently the more general meaning wild animal.' [45] -

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