Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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MODERN JAINISM.
: The second great vow of the Jaina, the renouncing of all untruthfulness, runs thus :-"I renounce all vices of
lying speech (arising) from anger or greed 2. Asatya Tyaga or fear or mirth. I shall neither myself અસત્ય ત્યાગ.
speak lies, nor cause others to speak lies, nor consent to the speaking of lies by others. I confess and blame, repent and exempt myself of these sins in the thrice three-fold way, in mind, speech, and body."*
It is interesting to notice that, with regard to the order of the vows, the Jaina have here kept closer to the second Brahmanic vow of truthfulness than have the Buddhists, whose second vow is against stealing.
The Jaina carefully subdivide this vow, also, into nine.
The third vow runs :-“I renounce all taking of any3. Asteya Vratathing not given, either in a village or
aut ad a town or a wood, either of little or much, of small or great, of living or lifeless things, I shall neither take myself what is not given, nor cause others to take it, nor consent to their taking it.” † This vow is the third vow of the Brāhman ascetics, but the second of the Buddhists.
The Jaina subdivide this vow also in nine ways, and under it forbid a guru to take any child as a disciple without the leave of his parents, and insist on the ascetics dividing with each other the alms they have received. By it, too, an ascetic is forbidden to ask any individual for a house to live in without the consent of the principal laymen of the place. Once a man has given a house, he may never again be asked for alms. * S. B. E. xxii. 204.
+ S. B. E. xxii. 205.