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he should give up such trades as involve cruelty to animals.
Such businesses, as the following fifteen, should not be followed by those who have taken the seventh vow:
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1. Making and selling charcoal.
2. Agriculture, horticulture, or gardening.
3. Making and selling carts, etc., or driving vehicles belonging to oneself.
4. Driving or plying other people's vehicles, either as a servant, or hired.
5. Blasting rocks, digging mines, ploughing, etc. 6. Ivory business, necessitating the killing of elephants. 7. Lac, or any similar substance. Insects get caught
in it.
8. Liquids, for the same reason.
9. Poison.
10. Fur, hair.
11. Milling or water-pumping; fish get killed in large quantities.
12. Castrating.
13. Burning or cutting green forests, fields, etc.
14. Drying lakes, ponds, or reservoirs; the fish are killed.
15. Bringing up women for immoral purposes, or animals for any cruel purpose, in order to make money.
PARTIAL TRANSGRESSIONS
Eating food that contains animate beings, etc. (see Tattvarthadhigama Sutra, chapter 7, verse 30. Cf. Yogasastra, III, 97).
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