Essence Of Jaina Scriptures

SR No.: 022313
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jagdish Prasad Jain
Publisher: Kaveri Books
Publication Year: 2014
Total Pages: 508
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 38 MB

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GATHAS GIVEN ONLY IN TATPARYA-VRITI OF JAYASENA
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224/11. Any one of the three castes (Brahmana, Kshatriya, Vaishya) who has a sound body, is of an age capable of austerities, has a good countenance and is free from blame, is fit to receive the token-of-anascetic (linga) [a capable shudra, etc. also).
224/12. The loss of the three jewels is what the best of Jinas designate a deficiency (bhanga): by deficiencies in other respects one is disqualified for (voluntary) fasting unto death (sallekhana) (a practise indulged in case of incurable disease and impending unavoidable death).
226/2. Through the four (passions) (anger, pride, deceit and greed], [four kinds of] idle talk about women, food, thieves and politics), the (five] objects of the senses, and when pre-occupied with affection and sleep (drowsiness), a shramana becomes guilty of the fifteen kinds of] heedlessness (pramada).
229/2. In pieces of meat, cooked, raw and being cooked, there takes place a continuous origination of very smallest living beings (nigoda) of the same kind.
22913. He who eats or touches a cooked or raw piece of meat kills a mass of many kotis (ten millions) of souls [beings).
229/4. A morsel (of food) which, although not forbidden (apratikrushta), has been in one's hand, should not be given to another; if given, it is not fit for eating, or the eater becomes liable to repentance (pratikrushta).
239/2. Renunciation, abstinence from worldly undertaking (leading to sin), indifference to sense-objects and annihilation of the passions are called self-restraint; especially in the state of a religious mendicant (pravrajya).
268/2. He who, seeing one thirsty, hungry or pained (miserable], is pained in mind and through pity assists him is “compassion."