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PAÑCALINGĪPRAKARAŅAM : 119
Rogi sirāveho iva suviijakiriya va supauttau / Pariņāmasundara cciya ciccā se vāhayogevi || 60 ||
Rogiņo sirāvedha iva
suvaidyakriyeva suprayukta tuḥ | Pariņāmasundară caiva cestā
tasya badhayoge pi || 60 ||
As a well performed surgery is painful,
but is employed for the patients' well-being | So is the violence in temple construction is,
for ultimate good of the living beings || 60 ||
60. Just as the well performed surgery, by a well-meaning and well-qualified and experienced doctor, like bleeding, tying of veins etc for the patients suffering from bad-blood is apparently painful for the patient but is for his ultimate benefit of curing him of the disease, so is the process of constructing the Jina-temple which is flawed by violence towards the creatures of earth-bodied beings etc, is for the ultimate well being of the living beings by virtue of its being an agency for gaining righteous inclination and ultimate liberation from mundane misery.
