________________
168
VRATAS
yourself, is the
possession of them). Knowledge is very nature of the soul.
Old method of classifying property into things:
1. Which can be sold by number, such as apples, melons.
2. Which can be sold by weight, such as sugar, drugs,
3. Which can be sold by measure, such as oil, milk.
4. Which can be sold silver.
by
testing, such as gold,
5. Different kinds of grades of property, such as land, buildings, metals, animals.
Aticharas.
The aticharas of this vow are all based upon the above classification. You limit the quantity you will possess, as your own, and if you keep more than the specified quantity you break the vow; and subterfuges, etc., would be considered as partial transgressions. For instance, when you become to possess grain beyond the limit fixed by you, if you keep the excess part somewhere else, with somebody else, for å time, that is subterfuge. Or marking a gold
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
