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Cosmic and Purificatory Rite
707
walking upon plants, by trampling underfoot dew, an antheap, moss, water, earth, a spider's web; whatever jivas possessing one sense, two senses, three senses, four senses, and five senses I have damaged, having hurt them [by a blow of the foot), covered them (with dust), slaughtered theme [by crushinghem against the ground), squashing them together, touching them, making them suffer, overwhelming them with fatigue, frightening them, shifting them from one place to another, taking their life from them,45 may my fault (due to these infringements and negligences) reap (for me) no reward!"46
The kşamă-maitri-sūtra: sūtra of pardon and friendship
"I ask pardon from all living beings and may all grant me pardon!47 I profess friendship for all living beings (and harbour no] enmity for any."48
The antima-mangala-sūtra: last sūtra of Happiness
"Thus, having made a true confession, having pronounced my faults blameworthy, having condemned them and, loathed them, my
45 Throughout this passage there is an element of wretchedness, of suffering.
46 icchāmi padikkamiuṁ iriyāvahiyae virähaņāe gamaņāgamaņe pānakkamane biyakkamane hariyakkamaņe osä-uttimga-paņaga- daga-mattimakkaņāsastāņā-samkamaņe, je me jivā virāhiya egimdiyā beimdiya teiṁdiyă caurisdiyā paṁcimdiya abhihayā vattiyā lesiyä samghaiya samghattiyā pariyaviyā kilāmiyā uddaviya thāņão thăņas saskāmiyā jiviyão vavaroviyā tassa micchă mi dukkadań. Ava16. This sūtra lays stress upon the vigilance and self-control required in order not to harm any living being; for irya and aştasükşma, cf. P 533; 706; 546.
47 For all the faults committed by them of which I may have been the cause.
48 khámemi savva jive, savve jiva khamaṁtu me
metti me savvabhūesu, veraṁ majjham na keņai. AvaS 32.
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