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JAINISM
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Non-limitation is the same thing as unsteadiness; it is like the butterfly life.
These teachings have been handed down from ancient times, when properly was classified in the following way; and in limiting the quantity we will possess as our own, we say use this old method of classification of things, and limit the things in each class:---
1. Things which can be sold by number, such as melons.
2. Things which can be sold by weight, such as sugar, drugs.
3. Things which can be sold by measure, such as oil, milk.
4. By testing, such as gold.
5. Different kinds of grades of property, land, buildings, metals, animals.
PARTIAL, TRANSGRESSIONS*
If we keep as our own more than the specified quantity of the things limited, we break the vow; and subterfuges, etc., would be partial transgressions; for instance, if we keep excess grain with some one else; or make a gold ring into a tie pin, because the number of gold rings is reached.
These first five vows are the minor vows in comparison with the vows of the monk which are called great vows, and are these same five in a strict and literal sense, no killing whatever, lying, stealing, sex passion, or property;
* Tattvartha, S. VII. 24, Yogasastra, III. 94. Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org
