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bhavati - esa khalu gamthe, esa khalu mohe, esa khalu māre, esa khalu narae. Hearing from the Jina or other ascetics, some people come to know
such violence is indeed a knot, is delusion, is death, is hell. 1.80 icchattham gadhie loe.
Nevertheless, the people entrapped in pursuit of pleasure (indulge
in violence to fire-bodied beings). 1.81 jamiņam virūvarūvehim satthehim agani-kamma-samārambhenam
agani-sattham samārambhamāṇe anne va negarūve pane vihimsati. They indulge in violent actions to fire-bodied beings with various weapons, which involve destruction of various other classes of
beings. 1.82 se bemi - appege amdhamabbhe, appege amdhamacche.
Thus do I say: somebody pierces or cuts the blind (fire-bodied beings which have the feeling of intense pain like that of the human
beings born blind, deaf, dump, lame and deficient in other limbs). 1.83 appege pāyamabbhe, appege pāyamacche.
Some people pierce and cut foot, ankle etc. (see sūtra 29 for all the
thirty-two limbs of the body). 1.84 appege sampamārae, appege uddavae.
Sometimes a person is beaten to a state of unconsciousness and
sometimes tortured to death. Bhasyam Sūtra 74-84 See Sūtra 20-30. 1.85 se bemi - samti pāņā pudhavi-nissiyā, taņa-nissiyā, patta-nisiyā,
katthaņissiyā, gomaya-nissiya, kayavara-nissiya, samti sampātimā pāņā, āhacca sampayamti ya. agņim ca khalu puthā ege samghāyamāvajjamti. je tattha Samghāyamāvajjami, te tattha pariyāvajamti. je tattha pariyāvajjamti, te tattha uddayamti. Thus do I say: There are living beings inhabiting earth, grass, leaf, wood, cowdung and garbage. There are insects which fly into fire impetuously; some of them shrivel when touched by fire, faint and
eventually die. Bhāsyam Sutra 85
There are many varieties of creatures such as those inhabiting the earth - the mobile ones and the immobile ones. Among the mobiles, there are kunthu (animal-cub), ant, snake, frog, etc. Among the immobile creatures there are tree, shrub, creeper, grass, etc. The creatures
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