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INITIATION, AND OMNISCIENCE OF ŚRI PĀRŚVA 401 living from splitting and grinding of grain: they are livelihood for forests. The sale of carts, the making of their parts, and also driving them: that is known as livelihood from carts. A living from driving the loads of oxen, buffaloes, camels, donkeys, mules, and horses of carts—that is livelihood from wages. Living from work of digging ponds, wells, et cetera and crushing rock, combined with injury to the earth--that is livelihood from splitting. The taking of tusks, hair, nails, bones, skin, and down from their place of origin in a movable creature for the sake of trading--that is livelihood from trading in tusks. The sale of lac, red arsenic, indigo, dhātaki,358 borax, et cetera ----that is called trading in lac, the abode of evil. The sale of fresh butter, lard, honey, wine, et cetera; the sale of two-footed and four-footed creatures—that is trading in rasa and hair. The sale of objects destructive of life, such as poison, weapons, plows, machines, iron, sulpheret of arsenic--that is called trading in poison. The pressing of seasame, sugar-cane, mustard seed, castor beans in water-machines, et cetera and the making of oil from their leaves are known as pressing by machine. Piercing the nose, branding, cutting the testicles, overloading, 359 cutting the ears and tail—that is called marking. The keeping of a maina, parrot, cat, dog, cock, peafowl, and of a slave-girl for the sake of money—they know as keeping of worthless creatures. A forest-fire could be of two kinds: from a calamity or from the idea of acquiring merit.360 Drying up of ponds is the flooding of water from ponds, rivers, lakes, et cetera.
Superintendence of combined things,361 excess of repeated
358 342. The Grislea tomentosa, because its bark and flowers are used in making wine.
359 346. A surmise, but it must be something of the sort. The Com. says: prsthagälanam karabhānām.
360 348. E.g., burning the old grass would be a good thing-an idea still prevalent.
361 349. I.e., two objects, either of which is harmless, but injurious when combined, e.g., bow and arrow. 51 N
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