Book Title: Jainism And Its History
Author(s): Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Research Foundation for Jainology

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________________ (viii) Evil and non-restraint activities consequence in pain and in the cycle of births and deaths. (ix) (x) Those who indulge in passions and violence cannot achieve the eternal peace and bliss. Liberation can be achieved through the observance of four Yamas, self-restraints. TEACHINGS OF PĀRSVANATH IN OTHER CANONICAL WORKS In Sūtrakṛtānga, Uttarādhyayana, and Vyakhya Prajñapti, we find some explanation of, or minute observations on what is broadly stated in the Isibhāsiyam. In these texts the views of Pārśva are presented by the followers of Pārśva and not by Pārśva himself. It is in the Isbhāsiyam alone that the original version of Pārsva's teachings is directly and implicitly present. Elsewhere we meet with Pārsva's views by proxy, through the discussions between the followers of Parsva and that of Mahāvīra or in a few instances by Mahāvīra himself. In Sūtrakṛtānga, for instance, is incorporated a conversation between Gautama and Udaka-Pedhalaputra, the follower of Pārśva, on the nature and language of the Pratyakhyāna-vow of nonviolence. In this long discussion Udaka-Pedhalaputra stressed on a technical point that, while taking the vow of non-violence, one must frame it in the language that "I shall not kill the being, who is presently in mobile form (Trasa-Bhuta) instead of saving "I shall not kill any mobile being". Similarly, in the Vyakyā-prajñapti some observations relating to the difference in minutiae about the nature and meaning of the terms Sāmāyika,the Pratyākhyāna, the Samvara, the Viveka and the Vyutsarga have been made during the discussion 67 Jainism and its History

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