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Five transgressions of the small vow of non-stealing
Achārya Umasvami's Tattvārthsūtra:
पुरुषार्थसिद्ध्युपाय
स्तेनप्रयोगतदाहृतादानविरुद्धराज्यातिक्रमहीनाधिक
मानोन्मानप्रतिरूपकव्यवहाराः॥
(Ch. 7-27)
चोरी के लिये चोर को प्रेरणा करना या उसका उपाय बताना, चोर से चुराई हुई वस्तु खरीदना, राज्य की आज्ञा के विरुद्ध चलना, देने - लेने के बाँट तराजू आदि कम-ज्यादा रखना और कीमती वस्तु में कम कीमत की वस्तु मिलाकर असली भाव से बेचना - ये अचौर्याणुव्रत के अतिचार हैं।
Prompting others to steal, receiving stolen goods, underbuying in a disordered state, using false weights and measures, and deceiving others with artificial or imitation goods.
Áchārya Pujyapada's Sarvārthasiddhi:
Prompting a person to steal, or prompting him through another or approving of the theft, is the first transgression. The second is receiving stolen goods from a person, whose action has neither been prompted nor approved by the recipient. Receiving or buying goods otherwise by than by a lawful and just means is an irregularity or a transgression. An attempt to buy precious things very cheaply in a disordered state is the third transgression. Cheating others by the use of false weights and measures in order to obtain more and give less, is the fourth transgression. Deceiving others with artificial gold, synthetic diamonds and so on, is the fifth transgression. These five are the transgressions of the vow of non-stealing.
Jain, S.A., Reality, p. 208.
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