Mahaviras Word

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

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The Ways of Action (Süyagada II 2.)
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"listen, venerable one, the teaching of the bondless ones is valuable; 160 this is the
highest truth, everything else is worthless." Their gate-locks are drawn up, their door open [for the right faith, but] it is disliked [by them], (just as] the entrance into the ladies' rooms, (so too) that in houses of
strangers. 161 They observe the day of abstention which falls on the fourteenth (and) eighth day (of each half-month and) on the day of the new moon [and] full moon; they present the bondless monks with food, drink, sweets (or) what is spiced, with clothing, bowl, cloth (or] broom, (they give them) medicine, foot-stool [and] sitting board, lodging [and] straw, (everything) just as it is allowed; they purge themselves through the periodic and permanent vows, through renunciation, days of abstention and fasting in many cases [and] through penance, depending on whether they have taken these upon themselves. By living in this way they fulfil for many years the career of a lay person; and whether suffering befalls them or not, they abstain from many dishes, then they leave out many meals, and after confession and atonement, when they die with a composed spirit at the time destined for them, they are reborn in the worlds of gods, in order to rule there as gods; [the worlds of the gods, however,) are wonderful ... (like 74, until) blessed. There they are ... (like 74, until well-meaning towards future [liberators]). This attitude is noble ... (like 57, until) pious. With this, then, the discourse of the third case, of the relation between guilt and merit, has taken place. In view of the inability to renounce, one speaks of a fool; in view of the power to renounce, one speaks of a wise one; in view of a mixture of renouncing and not renouncing, one speaks of a semi-fool and a semi-wise one. The lack of an accomplished renouncing is the case of acting which is ignoble ... (like 57, until) impious. The accomplished renouncing is the case of not acting which is noble ... (like 59, until) pious. A mixture of renouncing and not renouncing is the case of accomplished partial renounc
aya-m-āuso (he āyuşman, C), perhaps means: ae a' (aye āyuşman). To take ayam as a form of address or as related to the neuter pavayane is just as risky. The word atthe, which C and Uvav. have after pāvayane, may be arthyam; the negation is anathe.
10 Metaphorically! aciyatta (anabhimata) is certainly correct, as opposed to ciyatta, Uvav. 94 (972 3; WB). 124 (105a 3 (WB)); on the other hand, dära has to be put after ghara in these places, because of Silänka; pura in Uvav. 124 is wrong. (Cf. Bollée 2002, on $ 698 (WB)).