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14. Sarah-Soşana Karma: (Work involving the use of drying up streams, rivers, lakes etc.) This is explained as drawing off the water from lakes, tanks and water courses so that they dry up and can be sown with crops, thus all forms of aquatic life are destroyed. As per Lord Mahavira this trade causes injury to water bodied beings and other mobile beings life which reside in the water.
15. Asati posaņa Karma : (Work involving breeding, rearing or nourishing birds, animals etc.) Hemachandra" supplements this to include the treeding and keeping of destructive animals and birds such as parrots, mynahs, peacocks, cocks, cats, dogs and monkeys. Scientific research highlights that äkeeping of cats may cause the disease of Rabies keeping of cats may cause cat scratch fever due its fungus. Keeping of Monkey may spread malaria due to protozoa. Parrots keeping may result into psithacosis disease. 40 Lord Mahavira's view behind the restriction of this profession was that to give nourishment to the non-restrain animal beings is equal to encourage violence.
Today we see that due to rapid technological development of world symbolised by heavy industrialization, urbanization, mechanized agriculture, hydropower, thermal power and nuclear power, there have been successive destruction of the global eco-system. It is merely a development with destruction motivated by short term, quick, economic and political gains without regard to ecology. The 15 professions restricted by Lord Mahavira although encourages economic growth at the same time causes heavy environmental pollution. Even Lord Buddha also restricted five such professions namely 1. Satha vānija (arms) 2. Satta vāniija (living beings) 3. Māṁsa vāniija (flesh), 4. Majja vānijja (Honey) and 5. viņa vānijja (poison) because these professions cause high violence.“ because the economic principle is maximum demand,
m production, maximum consumption and maximum profit. Due to this maxim, where economy rises, ecology tends to decline. There is a wide disagreement among the economists and ecologists on the stralegies of development.
Economist's beleive in Quick short term gains' disregarding ecological consequences. Rapid economic development programmes do more harm to enviornment, where as ecologists want to maximise long term benefits slow but sustainable. The ecological impacts of one sided economic development can be seen in the form of 5 D's syndrome i.e. drought, deforestation, desertification, deluge and disease.
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