Book Title: Trishasti Shalaka Purusa Caritra Part 6
Author(s): Hemchandracharya, Helen M Johnson
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra

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________________ 310 CHAPTER TWELVE in lay-practices. Even in the assembly he will delight himself with a religious fellowship. Daily he will accept especially the restraints on food, vegetables, fruits, et cetera and he will generally observe continence. He, intelligent, will not only abandon courtesans, but will enlighten his wives to practice continence. Knowing the principles of jiva, ajiva, et cetera, like an ācārya, from the teaching of the muni, he will enlighten others. Some people, Brahmans named Paṇḍura, et cetera, who are hostile to the religion of the Arhats, will be embryolaymen, as it were, from his teaching. If the shrines do not have pūjās, if the gurus are not honored, he, pious, having taken layman's vows, will not eat. He will not take the money of men who have died childless. That is the fruit of discernment. The undiscerning are insatiable. He himself will give up hunting which was not given up by the Pāṇḍus and others; and all the people will give it up at his command. With him preventing injury (hińsā), not even an outcaste will kill a bug nor a louse, to say nothing of hunting, et cetera. With him preventing hunting in the forest, the deer will always chew their cuds unhindered like cows in a stable. Always he will guard against the killing of creatures, belonging to water, earth, and air, a Pākaśāsana in commands. Ones, who have eaten meat from birth, will reach forgetfulness of even the mention of meat, like an evil dream, from the power of his command. That which was not abandoned formerly by the Daśārhas, though they were laymen, namely, drinking-he, with a soul beyond censure, will suppress everywhere. Just as he will suppress the preparation of liquor on earth, so the potter will not make liquor-vessels. When they have stopped drinking at his command, prosperity will come to those drinkers, whose prosperity was always destroyed by their addiction to liquor. That which was not given up formerly by kings, Nala and others—namely, gambling, he will root up even the name, like his enemies. The sport of betting on pigeons and cock-fights will not exist, while Jain Education International For Private & Personal Use Only www.jainelibrary.org

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