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पुरुषार्थसिद्धयुपाय
immortality. These three forms are, (1) the actual commission of the harmful act oneself, (2) its abetment when done by another, and (3) the encouraging of those who have already committed it independently of oneself. As we punish the man who abets a burglary, the thief who actually commits it, and the receiver of the property stolen at the burglary, so does Will detest the accessory after the fact as much as the abettor and the ‘thief”. Hence, they who slaughter animals, they who get them slaughtered, and also they who purchase their dead limbs are travelling on the path that leads to suffering and pain. Jain, C.R., The Key of Knowledge, p. 601.
यदपि किल भवति मांसं स्वयमेव मृतस्य महिषवृषभादेः । तत्रापि भवति हिंसा तदाश्रितनिगोतनिर्मथनात् ॥
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अन्वयार्थ - ( यदपि ) यद्यपि (मांस) मांस (स्वयम् एव मृतस्य ) अपने आप मरे हुए (महिषवृषभादेः अपि भवति) भैंस, बैल आदि पशुओं का भी होता है (त अपि) वहाँ भी ( तदाश्रितनिगोतनिर्मथनात् ) उस मांस के आश्रित निगोद जीवराशि के घात होने से (किल) निश्चय से (हिंसा भवति) हिंसा होती है।
66. Eating flesh of animals like buffalo and ox, which have died of themselves, also involves himsă due to the destruction of numerous subtle, unevolved, spontaneously-born living beings (nigoda jivas) contingent on it.
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