Mahaviras Word

Author(s): Walther Shubring
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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The Lotus (Sūyagada II 1.)
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done, what is beneficial, what is detrimental, what is good, what is not good, perfection, no
perfection, hell, no hell. [Everything is constructed] in this manner right down even to a 22. blade of grass, 46 and one should recognize it through an enumeration of each and every ele
ment respectively as the sum of the elements, as there are: earth [is] the first element, water the second, fire the third, wind the fourth, air the fifth element. These five elements (are) not
[directly ready] created, not indirectly [ready] created, not made, not prepared (out of com23. ponents), not originated (on their own), without beginning, without end, never ineffective
[and this] without a driving force, independent (and) remain the same." (Some, however,
mention as the sixth element the soul. They say so: what is, cannot perish, [and] what is not, 24. cannot originate.)47 They constitute the totality of life, “the class of being 'life,">48 the whole
world. Through their effect they are "the original cause of the world”. [They might also say:) "Living beings right down even to a blade of grass, 6 one buys [and] has (them) bought, kills (them and) has (them) killed, roasts (them) and has [them) roasted right up even to a human being one buys (something or] one has [it bought, one kills or has it] killed: and so know then, there is no sin in this.” They (too] do not indicate (whether) ... (as in 17 continued to 19) ... in the middle (of sensual pleasure). This is the second man, he is
called the "one who believes in the five elements”. 25. Now [comes) the third man; one calls him the one who believes in a god as the creator”.49 26. “In this world truly (all] qualities have their beginning through the highest spirit (purisa),
their continuation through the highest spirit: they have been brought about by the highest spirit, come to be through it, brought to light through it, they are looked after through it, they are attached to it. Just as, for example, a growth on the body ensues, grows with the body, is looked after by the body, is attached to the body, so too the qualities have ... they are attached to it. Just as, for example, an ill-feeling ensues in the body ..., so too the qual
46 avi y'antaso...avi y'antaso ... avi, twice a triple "even”. (For this see Bollée 1977, p. 154 (WB). The same fn. twice on this page.) "7Cp. here 1 1, 1, 15f. Perhaps there is a sloka-păda here.
** atthikāya, perhaps still without the dogmatic meaning "the totality of all things”. (In his personal copy Schubring wrote, perhaps correcting Leben (life): "Seele" (soul). See also Nyāyavijaya 1998, 156. (WB).)
* A repetition of 13 and 14 follows this. (The same fn. on the next page.)