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(7) Five major violations pertaining to limitation on consumption of goods and occupations:
(a)
Consuming such things which possesses life, i.e., unripe or uncooked fruits and grains.
Consuming non-living things which are contaminated with living things such as ripe fruit with seeds.
(c)
Consuming uneatable or the things which cause intoxication. (d) Consuming something that is not cooked properly.
(e) Consuming something in which there is less to eat and more to discard.
(b)
In spite of these five violations pertaining to food, there are fifteen more violations pertaining to occupation.
(a) Occupation in which furnaces are used and thus pollution is created in air through smoke and gases,
(b) Occupations in which trees are cut down.
(c) Occupations related to fermented goods such as liquor.
(d) Occupation of renting animals or carts pulled by animals which ultimately causes cruelty towards animal.
(e) Occupations involving explosions.
(f) Trades in ivory, bones, horns, etc.
(g) Occupations concerned with crushing etc.
(h) Trades in lard or fat.
(i) Trades in sealing wax, etc.
(j) Trades in poisonous and toxic substances, such as opium, pesticides etc.
(k) Occupations in which animals, birds, fishes etc. are tortured or killed.
(1) Occupations in which animals, birds are amputated.
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