Some Jain Concepts and Conduct

Author(s): Sushma Singhvi
Publisher: B J Institute

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[Some Jain Concepts and Conduct
meat eating (iv) veśyā - whoring (v) mṛgayā - hunting (vi) caurya - thieving (vii) paradārā / parapuruṣa - adultery.64
In the Jain literature there are tales best known in Literature in connection with the seven vices. For gambling the example is Yudhisthira; for madya the yādavas; for māṁsa Bakarākṣasa; for veśyā Cārudatta; for mṛgayā Brahmadatta; for caurya Shribhuti; and for paradārā Rāvaṇa; while addiction to all seven vices at the same time is personified by Rudradatta."
These seven vices are of a later origin. In the Bṛhatkalpabhāṣya we find another set of seven Vyasanas namely (1) addiction to woman, (2) gambling (3) wine (4) hunting (5) harsh speech (6) harsh punishment and (7) mismanagement of the sources of wealth which primarily apply to the ruling authority of country."
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In this connection the vyasanas mentioned in the Manusamhita deserve attention. There are ten vyasanas that are due to lust and there are eight due to anger. A keen addicted to vyasanas due to lust is deprived of his wealth and virtues and is deprived of his life if addicted to those arising out of anger." The ten vyasanas due to lust are (1) hunting (2) dicing (Jua) (3) day dreaming (4) slundering (parivāda) (5) addition to woman (6) drinking (7) addiction to dance and (8) music vocal (9) addiction to music instrumental (Tauryatrikam) (10) and purposeless loitering (vṛthatya).
The eight vyasanas due to anger are (1) backbiting (2) rashness (sahasya) (3) perfidy (droha) (4) jealousy (irsya) (5) envy (asūyā) (6) misappropriation (arthad- ūṣaṇa) (7) Harsh words and (8) harsh punishments.
The place of six Avaśyakas in householders life:
There appears to have been a controversy about the performance of the six avasyakas by a householder. Acarya Abhayadevasüri quotes the following passage from the