________________
120
Mahāvira's Words by Walther Schubring
8. Liberation (Chapter 7 is considered missing, compare my edition p. 49.) A. Prose. On the service of monks rendered to monks and laity. B. Prose. Warning concerning attentiveness in judgement. C. Śloka. Acceptance of the doctrine in middle-age. Seclusion as the place for penance. D. Indravajra. Warning against a violent deed. E. Prose. Warning against a violent deed.
F. Prose. The monk's renunciation 1. of food or of a piece of equipment which a householder intended for him, 2. of warmth which a householder prepared for him during the cold, 3. of food which a householder provided for him when unable to walk. 4. Principles for fasting-exercises when he does not want to eat. G. Prose. Rules for clothing.
H. Prose. On proper eating.
32,25 (1.) Truly, I say: One should not hand over or offer a monk or a layperson food, drink,
sweet or what is spiced, clothing, bowl, cloth or broom, nor serve him in that one (thereby) takes a [calculated) consideration of another. So I say. (1)
One should know with certainty when one gets (105) or does not get, avails oneself of
them or not, food, drink, sweet or what is spiced, clothing, bowl, cloth or broom.
[2.] One may hand over or offer [him), one may [oneself) serve him on the way by turn33,5 ing back (or) turning away from the way, giving up his special practice [temporarily,
and) letting himself be disturbed from peace—if one (thereby] does not take a (calculated) consideration of another. So I say.
(But] some among us have not [yet] rightly grasped the (very) monastic customs. They have injurious action in mind in that they say over and over again: "kill (this and that] being", in that they are accomplices in killing, and in that they approve of it when a another kills; or they take what is not given; or (-I mention it because of this
case— ] 10 they are careless in their judgements in that they say, for example, "the world exists"
[or] "the world does not exist”, “the world is permanent” [or] “the world is not permanent", "the world is created" [or] "the world is not created”, “the world is finite” [or] "the world is not finite"; "this has been done rightly" or "this has been done wrongly", "this is beneficial" or "this is injurious", "this is good" or "this is not good", "[he
attains) perfection" or "[he does) not [attain) perfection”, “[he goes to] hell” or “[he 14 does not [go to] hell." If they now, judging so erroneously, propound their personal
41 See Appendix 4 for Jacobi's remarks about this and the next paragraph, and his translation.
Jain Education International
For Private & Personal Use Only
www.jainelibrary.org
