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Verse 117
Giving of gift wipes out greed which is a form of himsă; therefore, giving of gift to a worthy recipient has been said to be renunciation of himsă.
Jain, Vijay K. (2012), "Shri Amritachandra Suri's Puruṣarthasiddhyupaya", p. 110-111.
A digambara saint necessarily carries with him the feather-whisk (picchi), made up of fallen peacock feathers, for clearing the to-be-used spaces and things like the Scripture, without causing injury to organism.
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