Jambu Jyoti

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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'Adda' or the Oldest Extant Dispute between....
2, 6, 22
vitt' -esino mehuṇa-saṁpagāḍhā te bhoyan' -aṭṭhā vaṇiyā vayanti | vayam tu kāmesu ajjhovavannā an-ariya pema-rasesu giddha ||
Property-minded and engaging in sexual relations these merchants say (they behave thus) to earn their living (or wander around for pleasure). We, however, (believe that they are) given to the pleasures of the senses, not (serious) believers (and) lustful.
Mehuna: why this and pema-rasesu giddha should be particularly characteristics of merchants is not clear. Does vaniya in fact stands for (Jain) laymen? Then the reason why these characteristics are mentioned here would become understandable for many souls are destroyed in sexual intercourse67. Chastically as to the a-pāda here property and disregard for living beings are taken up once more in vs. 23 a.
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Jinadāsa then admonishes those who live in that way by means of several quotations citing the first: śiśnôdara-kṛte, Pärtha ! (426, 9f.) at Cu 86, 7f. ad Ayar 1, 2, 5, 5 introduced by bhaniyam ca loge vi and completed as follows: prthivīm jetum icchasi/jaya śiśnodaram, Pārtha ! tatas te prthivi jită. The first pada reminds us of Mbh (cr. ed.) 1, 164, 13 b p. j. icchată and the last one of Mbh 5, 148, 4 a tatas te pṛthivī-pālāḥ.
Vayanti: vrajanti (Cu 426, 8), to which Silânka adds: vadanti vā (Ț II 147a 1), perhaps because Ayar 1, 1, 7, 6 arambhamānā vinayaṁ vayanti / chandôvaniyā ajjhovavannā/ārambha-sattā pakarenti sangam.
2, 6, 23
arambhagam c'eva pariggaham ca a-viussiyā nissiya āya-daṇḍā | tesim ca se udae, jam vayāsī, caur'-ant' an-antaya duhaya, nêha ||
They neither give up killing nor property, but stick to it. They are inconsiderate, but their gain which you mentioned (will serve) them only to endless distress in the (whole) square (world), not only here.
A-viussiya 'they do not abstain from (...)' (Jac.), avosirium (Cũ 427, 1), a-vyutsṛjya-a-parityajya (T II 147a 4). If anywhere, it is with this rare