Book Title: Some Jaina Canonical Sutras
Author(s): Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society

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________________ 164 SOME JAINA CANONICAL SOTRAS limiting one's enjoyment of consumable and non-consumable things; and (7) taking a vow to take one's food after feeding the ascetics with it portion of it. There are five defects or partial transgressions (aticārā) in a man of right belief: (1) doubt, (2) desire of sensual pleasures, (3) disgust, (4) thinking highly of wrong believers, and (5) praising them. The partial transgressions of the first row (ahimsāanuvrata) are the following:-(1) angrily or carelessly tying up an animal or human being; (2) angrily or carelessly beating an animal or human being; (3) angrily or carelessly mutilating an animal or human being; (4) angrily or (arrlessly overloading an animal or human being; (5) angrily or carelessly withholding food or drink from an animal or human being. Partial transgressions of the second vow are the following: (1) preaching false doctrines; (2) divulging the secret actions of a man or woman; (3) forgery and perjury (kutulekhakriyā); (4) unconscientious dealing by means of speech (nyāsāpahāra); (5) divulging what one guesses by seeing the behaviour of others. Partial transgressions of the third vow are the following: abetment of theft, receiving stolen property, illegal traffic, false weight, and adulteration. Partial transgressions of the fourth vow are the following: (1) bringing about the marriage of people who are not one's own family; (2) intercourse with a married immoral woman; (3) intercourse with an unmarried immoral woman; (4) umnatural sexual intercourse; (5) intense sexual desire. The partial transgressions of the first guņavratu are the following: (1) negligence to go higher than one's own limit in the VOW; (2) negligence to go lower than one's own limit in the vow; (3) negligence to go in the eight directions beyond one's own limit; (4) negligence to increase in one direction and decrease in another the boundaries; (5) forgetting the limit in the vow. The partial transgressions of the second gunavrata are the following: (1) sending for something beyond the limit; (2) sending someone out beyond the limit; (3) sending one's voice out beyond the limit; (4) making signs for persons beyond the limit; (5) throwing some material beyond the limit.

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