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the Jains arhat, siddha, etc.), namely worldly pleasures of sense (kāma).
S. No. 111: The example of 'As They Deserved' is based on Av. Vrtti, Part II, p. 554, to p. 555a Pratikramana (repentance, confession), is said to be eightfold: 1. pratikramana, 2. praticaraṇā, 3. pariharaṇā, 4. Väraṇā, 5. nivṛtti, 6. ninda, 7. garha and 8. siddhi. The example under reference pertains to praticaraṇā (Cf. Idanim praticaraṇāyām prašađena drstanto bhanyateЛ).
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It is illustrated by the example of the mansion (Prāsāda). It is rather difficult to render this term correctly into English. 'Carefully maintaining' might convey the intended sense. At the spiritual level the commentator thus interprets it:
Bhave drstantasyopanayah-Vaniksthāniyenācāryeṇa
prāsāda-sthāniyaḥ
samyamaḥpraticaritavya ityājñaptaḥ/ Ekena Sādhunā Sātāsaukhya -bahulena na praticaritaḥ, sa vanigjāyeva samsare duḥkha-bhājanam jätaḥ, yena praticarito'kṣatah samyama-prāsādo dhṛtaḥ sa nirvaāṇasukha-bhāgi jätah/ p. 54-55a f.n.
The merchant stands for the preceptor, the mansion for self-control (and the merchant's wives for the monks). One of the two monks, who was fond of pleasures of sense did not carefully maintain self-control, and consequently he became vary unhappy in this world like the first wife of the merchant; the other monk maintained self-control completely like the second wife who maintained the mansion as it was, and finally attained the bliss of salvation.
S. No. 112: "Absurd Tales" - this narratie is based on Nisitha
Bhāṣya, 1.1154-1160. Haribhadra's Dhürtākhyāna
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