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excerpt is given at the very outset of chapter IV, called SammattaAjjhayana. It runs as follows: Thus do I say-the Arahamtas (the Revered Ones) and the Bhagavamtas (the Lords) of the past, present and future, all say thus, enjoin thus (evam pannavante), explain thusall breathing, all existing, all living, all sentient creatures should not be killed, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the discipline which is pure, eternal, inalterable, and declared by the enlightened ones who have comprehcnded (the nature of) the world. Non-violence is always the theme of these injunctions.
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1. Rgveda, X, 129. 6. 2. I, 1, 1, 1, 2.
3. I, p. 12 (NNMEdn).
4. Ayaro, 1. 2. 6. 161-5 :
sadde ya phase ahiyāsamāṇa nivvimda namdim iha jiviyassa
muņi monam samādāya, dhuṇe kamma-sarīragaṁ
paṁtaṁ lūham sevaṁti vīrā samattadamisiņo
esa oghamtare muņi, tiņne mutte virate, viyähite tti bemi
5. ibid. I. 1. 4. 68-69:
virehim eyam abhibhūya diṭṭham, samjetehim
saya jatehim saya appamattehim
je pamatte gunaṭṭhie, se nu dande pavuccati
6. ibid. I, 8. 1. 17-18. :
uḍdham aham tiriyam disāsu, savvato savvävamti
ca nam padiyakkaṁ jīvehiṁ kamma-samāraṁbhe nam tam pariņņaya mehāvi ņeva sayaṁ etehim kāehim da ṇḍam samārambhejjā, nevannehim etehim käehim daṇḍam
samārambhavejja,
nevanne etehim kāehim daṇḍaṁ samārambhaṁte vi samaņujāņejjā
7. ibid. I, 3. 1. 1-3:
suttă amuņi sayā, muņņo sayā jāgaraṁti loyaṁsi jāņa ahiyāya dukkham samayam logassa jänittä, ettha satthovarae
8. ibid. I, 5. 2. 36.
9. ibid. I, 4. 4. 45:
nettehim palichiņṇehim, āyaṇasoya-gaḍhie bāle
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