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F. W. Thomas, Mallisena's Syädvādamanjari which appeared to Srimad Indrabhūti and others, the divinities of the class leaders (gana-dhara)") of substances, to deny soul, etc., were expounded") as proving that same. So also the Smrti-authorities cite a verse (187) -
Not in flesh-eating is there fault, not in wine and not in sexual intercourse.
This is the proceeding of living creatures: but abstention is greatly fruitful" 13). And in this, if the sense is expounded as recorded, there is simply disconnected babble. For from that within which, if acted upon, there is no fault at all, how ever will abstention be greatly fruitful ? Because of the consequence of abstention from sacrifice, study, giving, etc.. also. Therefore there is another signification of this verse; as thus: Not in flesh-eating, if done, is there non-fault, but on the contrary actual fault: likewise in wine and sexual intercourse, etc. How is there not absence of fault? On this it says "because this is the proceeding of living creatures": "proceeding is place of origination'; therein they proceed, that is, are borr; 'of living creatures', of embodied souls; it is the cause of attachment in such and such souls. This is the meaning. And that flesh, wine, sexual intercourse are root cause of the attachment of souls, is familiar in the Scripture!) -
In maturing lumps of flesh, both raw and cooked, Origination, without limit, of (infinitesimal, nigoya) creatures is affirmed. In wine, and spirits, in flesh and in fresh butter as a fourth Are born limitless beings of that class. Habituated to the notion of sexual intercourse, one kills nine lakhs of minute souls: Brought to knowledge by the all-knowing, they must be believed in ever". (188) "Those two-organed living beings which take birth in a woman's womb, Are one lakh, or two lakhs, or three lakhs, or exceeding the severalty of lakhs. When she has been joined with the man, there is an outpouring of those living beings,
After the example of a bamboo known by a heated iron peg". When the womb is in union, those are two-organed creatures, but five-organed when womb-born sprung from semen and blood 15), are these -
"Men five-organed in the womb of a woman enjoyed by one man, Are born, at the most nine lakhs in number, at one time. Among the nine lakhs takes place on the part of one or two completion; The remainder again even so pass to non-existence there and then".
And the application is that because of being cause of the destruction of souls, flesh-eating, etc., are not 'unfaulty". Or else this is the proceding of bhūtas, i. e. of fiends mostly; those only here practise flesh-eating, etc., and not discriminating people that is the sense. As for what is to be taught after so making plain the faultiness of flesh-eating, etc., that he states, but abstention is greatly fruitful". The 'but has the meaning of the word 'only', because of the text: 'tu should be used in distinction and in limitation" 16). And so simply abstention from
1) On the eleven 'Gana-dharas', leaders in Mahāvīra's early community, the chief being Indrabhūti, sce Outlines of Jainism, pp. xxxv, xxxvii, and von Glasenapp. Der Jainismus, pp. 32, 302.
12) The occasion is expounded by M. L. in a long note, citing the comm. of Malayagiri on Višeşāvas yaka II, and some other texts.
13) The quotation is from Manu-smrti, V. 56 (M. L.). ") From Sambodha-saptatika, by Ratnasekhara, 66, 65, 63, etc. (M. L.). ") On these classes of living beings see Outlines of Jainism, pp. 8-9. 18) From the Amara-kosa lexicon, 111. 329.
