Mahaviras Word

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

Page 82

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59.
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62.
The Ways of Action (Suyagaḍa II 2.)
ignoble, manifold, imperfect, against the rules, impure, not healing; it [is] not the way to perfection, to liberation, to extinction, to isolation, not the way which is free from suffering; it [is] completely false and impious.
63
With this, then the discourse of the first case, of guilt, has taken place.
Now the discourse of the second case, of merit, will be given. Truly I say: in the east [like II 1, 35 until] decided on the way of alms. They, [however] after they have heard [and] understood the teaching from the monk... [like II 1, 59 until] are completely peaceful [and] totally extinguished-so I say. This attitude" [is] noble, unique, perfect, according to the rules, pure, healing; it [is] the way to perfection, to liberation, to extinction, to isolation, the way which is free from all suffering; it [is] completely right and pious. Thus, then the discourse of the second case, of merit, has taken place.
Now the discourse of the third case, of the relation between guilt and merit will be given. Those [here] among us... (like 21 above, until) [or] born dumb. This attitude [is] ignoble,... (like 57, until) completely false and impious. With this, then, the discourse of the third case, of the relation between guilt and merit has taken place."
Now the discourse of the first case, of guilt, will be given.
Truly, here in the east, south, west [or] north there are" all kinds of people, who live in the world, are full of desires, full of activities, have a lot of property, being false, agree to the false, are devoted to the false, speak false, live false, have the false in view, hang on to the false, are completely false in mentality and action, acquired their livelihood through the false alone; so they lead their life. They beat, run through, pierce, continuously cut [what is living]," have bloody hands, are cruel, crude, vulgar, violent; indulge in bribery, fraud, deception trickery, dishonesty, pretension, profit
80 In C se bemi. Instead iha khalu is omitted there, the same, correspondingly, in II 1, 35.
81
See note 79 above.
82 Indeed, in view of their brevity and lack of invention, the second as well as the third case have to be a much later addition out of scholastic intention. If it is required in 58 that from II 1, 35 one repeat everything until 59, then this is, of course, impossible; at the most, it has to be those parts from 35 to 59 which, connected to one another, have a certain coherence.
83
The following until 68 is also contained in Dasă. 6, with minor differences. I am referring to this through D, Dc(unni) and D(ikā). Dc and C are almost identical for 63. (Cf. Schubring 1921a, p. 14 (WB).)
84 The sense of repetition is in the use of the second person, imperative: "beat, run through, pierce," compare Jacobi 1895, p. 373' (Cp. Sen 1936, p. 15 (WB)).