Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra

SR No.: 011060
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller
Total Pages: 500
Language: English
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UTTARÂDHYAYANA.
6. Fasting which is to precede death, is of two kinds with regard to the motions of the body: with change (of position) and without change. (12)
And again it is twofold: admitting of relief, or not; one may either leave the place (which one has chosen to die in), or not leave it ; in both cases one may not take any food. (13)
2. Abstinence is briefly of five kinds: with regard to a. substance; b. place; c. time; d. state of mind; e, development. (14)
a. He who takes less food than he usually does 2, in the extreme case but one mouthful, performs abstinence with regard to substance. (15)
6. (Place means) a village, a scotfree town 3, a capital, a camp of merchants 4, a mine, a settlement of a wild tribe ", a place with an earth wall ®, a poor town?, a town with a harbour 3, a large town”, an isolated town 10, and an open town". (16)
1 Saparikarma = vaiyâvrityasahita. This leads to inginîmarana and bhaktapratyakhyâna; the aparikarma to pâdapộpagamana (i.e. prâyộ pagamana); comp4 part i, p. 7.
2 Thirty-two mouthfuls is the usual quantity of food of men, twenty-eight that of women. A mouthful is of the size of an egg.
& Nagara, where no taxes (na kara) are levied, while villages pay eighteen taxes.
· Nigama, or a place where many merchants dwell. 5 Paili.
Khê?a. ? Karvata. According to the dictionary, it means 'markettown;' but the commentators render it by kunagara, or say that it is karvataganâvâsa, the dwelling-place of the Karvata people.
8 Drôna mukha, a town to which there is access by water and land, like Bhrigukakkha or Tâmralipti.
• Pattana.
10 Matamba, a town which is more than three and a half yôganas distant from the next village.
11 Sambâdha, prabh@takâturvarnya nivâsa.