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1.57 pudho sattham paveiyam.
Bhāsyam Sūtra 57
There are many varieties of weapons that kill the water-bodied beings. In the Niryukti, those weapons are:
That there are varieties of weapons has been propounded (by the Lord).
1. Drawing out water from a well by means of a vessel. 10
2. Straining through a thick smooth piece of cloth.11
3. Washing cloth, pot, etc.
4. The river water is the weapon of pond water. (Here the weapon is homogeneous).
The Curni mentions some other varieties of weapons also, such as, change produced in colour, taste, smell and touch.
5. Earth, soil, alkali, fire, etc., are the weapons of water-bodied beings. (Here the weapon is heterogeneous).
6. Earth mixed with water is the weapon of the water-bodied beings. (Here the weapon is a mixture of homogeneous and hetrogeneous instruments of destruction).
For instance, water when heated becomes slightly brown in colour, smoky in srnell, insipid in taste, and hot in touch. The imperfectly boiled water is not lifeless.
The salty, sweet and sour water are weapons mutually. The foul smelled water is mostly lifeless.
The natural hot water of the Mahātapa spring (the hot spring near Rajgir in Bihar) is by nature animate. When it grows cold, it gives up its nature and becomes inanimate.
1.58
Salty, sweet and acid water are mutually weapons. The fowl smell is usually inanimate. 12
In the Bhagavati Sūtra there is mention of the growth of fire-bodied beings in this hot spring. 13 But there is no mention of the water becoming inanimate, when it becomes cold.
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aduvā adiņṇādāṇam.
Or, it (viz. the use of live water) is a case of accepting what has not been offered (stealing).
Bhāsyam Sutra 58
In those days, the heretic teachers did not use water, not offered to them. They took the permission of the owner of the water reservoir and
तुलसी प्रज्ञा अंक 118
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