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Mahavira's Words by Walther Schubring
single case [of living beings]. Those wandering brothers and monks, now, who here say, speak, proclaim, explain, that no lower animal, no plant, no higher being, no other being may be beaten, commanded, subdued, strained [or] annihilated, to them. will not be ordained in the future cutting or piercing, they will not suffer birth... (like 81). They will not suffer from it that...; [they will not live to see] that...: [they will not suffer from it] that ..., not move again ...; [but] they will attain the goal, awaken, become free, be extinguished [and] put an end to all suffering.
The souls which move in these twelve kinds of acting have [as yet] never attained the goal, been awakened, become free, be extinguished [and] put an end to all suffering: nor do they attain the goal, wake up, become free, be extinguished [and] put an end to all suffering; nor will they attain the goal, wake up, become free, extinguish [and] put an end
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to all suffering. The souls (however,] which move in our thirteenth kind of acting, [they] have attained the goal, ... [and] have put an end...; they attain the goal... [and] put an end.... So may [you], a monk who thinks about his self, benefits his self, is in his self on guard, exerts his self, strains himself from his self, maintains his self, has mercy on his self, saves his self," draw [onto you] the self-so I say.
177 Or: "acts [only] for his self" (in religious life).
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Through daya, because all beings are the same.
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attāṇam samsāra-caragā nippheḍeti, attānam ṇāṇ' ādīhim gunehim nipphedeti, C.
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