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( 40 ) Udambar, fruits of Gular, Peepal, Bar, Pakar, and Anjeer.
Wine. 62. Wine stupefies the mind, piety is lost sight of, and Himsa is the consequence.
63. It is the birth-place of numerous lives.
64. Pride, fear, disgust, ridicule, ennui, grief, sex-passion, anger etc., are all forms of Himsa, and are caused by wine,
Flesh. 65. Flesh is procured by killing life. Himsa is obvious there.
66. The flesh of those who are dead is the birthplace of numerous spontaneously-born lives.
67. Whether raw, cooked, or otherwise, spontaneouslyborn lives are constantly being generated there.
68. And he who uses such flesh is responsible for killing groups of such lives.
Honey. 69. Every drop of honey signifies injury to bees, and is hence prohibited.
70. Even if obtained without such jnjury, it is the birthplace of spontaneously.born lives.
Renounce the Eight Non-Eatables. 71. Honey, wine, butter, flesh, are all the result of Extreme fermentation and the birth-place of lives.
72. The fruits of Gular, Anjeer Peepal, Pákar and Bara are birth-places of mobile lives.
73. Even when dry, and free from lives, there is Himsa in using them, because of the keen desire for such prohibited things, which injures the purity of the self.
74. A Jain disciple would renounce all the above noneatables.
Partial Ahimsa. 75. Those who do not feel strong enough to renounce Himsa of immobile beings, should at least give up Himsa of mobile lives.
76. Such renunciation to be complete is nine-fold, viz., by self, through agent, by approval, and in each case by body, speech or thought. Imperfect renunciation is of
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