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Jainism and Meat-Eating
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4. तत्थ से भुंजमाणस्स, अद्विअं कंटओ कंटओ सिया। तणकट्ठसक्करं वावि, अन्नं वावि तहाविहं।।
While taking his meal if a monk happens to feel in his morsel a seed, a thorn, a straw, a bit of wood, a small stone etc.?
As shown above अट्ठिय means seed and बहुअट्ठिय means having many seeds. The latter being adjective of it, He cannot mean flesh, because flesh does not contain seeds; but it means only the pulp or soft part of a fruit, and the use of fe in this sense is well known.
1 = (FO HIHO) 1. Flesh, 2. Fleshy part of a fruit."3
HH in the sense of a pulp of a fruit has been used in the Sūtras, in English language, in Botany and even in the medical sciences as can be ascertained from the following authorities.
Sūtra. Faz TA RETE 74 gaifa polisiana The stalk, the pulp and the skin (of a fruit) have one life.' English. Flesh, Soft pulpy substance of fruit. '5 Botany. Fleshy part of a fruit. Medical Science ung pitci Tas FE HTH Haftastali
While describing the properties of a Bijorā fruit the word Hih is used for the pulpy part of that fruit."
In this way E3tfg31 H means 'the pulp of a fruit with many seeds.'
Now let us further examine the meaning of मच्छं वा बहु कंटगं which is used in the same sentence. In the sentence E3tfi Hidal, Here at Edeti, the word at is twice used. The word at, according to Āpte, can be used in two ways,
at = (1) as an alternative conjunction meaning or, and, also. (2) as a figurative attribute equivalent to aş meaning Like?
The following examples respectively show that at is used in both the above senses in Jaina scriptures.
