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1.50 jamiņam viruvarūvehim satthehim udaya-kammasamāram bhenam udaya-sattham samarambhamāṇe anne vanegarūve päne vihimsati.
They indulge in violent actions to water-bodied beings with various weapons, which involve destruction of various other classes of living beings.
1.51
1.52
1.53
se bemi - appege amdhamabbhe, appege amdhamacche. Thus I say - somebody pierces or cuts the blind (water-bodied beings that have the feeling of intense pain like that of the human beings born blind, deaf, dumb, lame and deficient in other limbs).
1.55
appege payamabhe, appege payamacche.
Some people pierce and cut foot, ankle, leg etc. (see Sūtra 29 for all the thirty-two limbs of the body).
appege sampamārae, appege uddavae.
Sometimes a person is beaten to a state of unconsciousness and sometimes tortured to death.
Bhāsyam Sutra 53
The Sutra 40 to 53 are to be explained like the Sutra 17 to 30.
1.54
se bemi - samti pānā udaya-nissiyā jīvā aṇegā.
There are many acquatic beings living in water. Thus do I say.
iham ca khalu bho! aṇagārāṇam udaya-jīvā viyāhiyā.
In this ascetic discipline, O men, water itself has been propounded as a living being.
Bhāsyam Sutra 54, 55
In those days no other thinker did accept water as a sentient entity. There was of course the opinion that there are living beings in water. This Sūtra clarifies the issue. In the Jaina scripture, water itself is propounded a living substance. There are many creatures living in water. But they are not water-bodied beings, being simply the mobile beings born in water. The organisms (accepted by modern science) live in water, but they are not water-bodied beings.
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1.56 sattham cettha āṇuvii pāsā.
Minutely visualize the weapons of injury to water-bodied beings. Bhāsyam Sūtra 56
Look carefully at the weapons that destroy the water-bodied beings, that is, the instruments that kill them. This is for enlightening the mind of the disciple. Asks the disciple: what are those weapons? The reply is contained in the sutra that follows.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अक्टूबर-दिसम्बर, 2002
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