Narrative Tale in Jain Literature

Author(s): Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society

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NARRATIVE TALE IN JAIN LITERATURE
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addressing Āņanda, the disciple of the Samaņa, spoke to him thus: "Truly, O Āņanda, a disciple of the Samana, who has mastered the discrimination of the living and the lifeless and who wishes (and so forth, down to) not to be betrayed into any transgression (of the Niggantha doctrine), must know and avoid the following five typical offences against the law of right belief; viz., scepticism, unstableness distrustfulness, praising of heterodox teachers, and intimacy with heterodox teachers.
45. Next disciple of the Samana must know and avoid the following five typical offences against the law of abstention from gross ill-usage of living beings, viz., tying them, bruising them, piercing any of their limbs, overlouding them, and starving them in food and drink.
46. Next he must know and avoid the following five typical offences against the law of abstention from grossly lying speech, false accusations made number the influence of passion, false accusations made under cover of secrecy, betrayal of the confidence of one's wife, communication of false information, and falsification of documents.
47. Next he must know and avoid the following five typical offences against he law of abstention from gross taking of things not given , viz., receipt of stolen property, employment of thieves, smuggling into a forbidden country, false weights and measures, and dealing with adulterate wares.
48. Next he must know and avoid the following five typical offences against the law of contentment with one's own wife; viz., visiting a kept woman, visiting a respectable woman, amorous dalliance with other women, arranging marriages for strangers, and excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
49. Next a disciple of the Samaņa must know and avoid the five typical offences against the law of limiting one's desires, viz., exceeding one's limit regarding the possession of landed property, exceeding one's limit regarding the possession of gold, wrought and unwrought; exceeding one's limit regarding the possession of two-footed and fourfooted creatures; exceeding one's limit regarding the possession of money and grain; and exceeding one's limit regarding the possession of metal utensils.
50. Next he must know and avoid the following five