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

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________________ BOOK 2, LECTURE I. 347 I have treated of the fourth man who believes that Fate is the cause of everything. (33) These four men, differing in intellect, will, character, opinions, taste, undertakings, and plans, have left their former occupations, but have not entered the noble path. They cannot return (to worldly life) nor get beyond it; they stick (as it were) in pleasures and amusements. (34) I say: here in the East, West, North, and South there are some men, viz. Âryas, non-Âryas, (&c., as in § 13, all down to) ugly men. They own small or large houses and fields, they own few or many servants and peasants. Being born in such-like families, they renounce (their possessions) and lead a mendicant's life. Some leave their kinsmen and their property to lead a mendicant's life; others, who have no kinsmen nor property, lead a mendicant's life. Whether they have kinsmen and property or not, they renounce them and lead a mendicant's life. (35) Previously, however, they thought thus: “Here, indeed, a man, who is on the point of turning monk, makes the following reflections with regard to different things : I possess fields, houses, silver, gold, riches, corn, copper, clothes, real valuable property, as riches, gold, precious stones, jewels, pearls, conches, stones, corals, rubies?. I enjoy sounds, colours, smells, tastes, and feelings of touch. These pleasures and amusements belong to me, and I belong to them.' (36) A wise man, previously, should thus think to 1 The same enumeration of valuable things occurs elsewhere, e. g. Kalpa Sätra, Lives of the Ginas, $ 90.

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