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Appendix II THE ORIGIN OF AHIMSA by Hanns-Peter Schmidt* and plans but also the elements earth, fre, water and air consist in aaa eindividual souls, This involves thatthe Jaina monks avoid ering and heating water, handling fre and using a fan since he Mould thereby injure water, fire and airsouls, He isto accept only eg nich hes been prepared, Le killed, by others, including water (Ga) which must be boiled, Only in this way he is safeguarded nine any complicity in depriving an animate being oft ie Aldor! oe. i, 15 has rightly stressed the fac thatthe concept of shims as we meet nas isnot based on ethical ideas futons magico-ritualistic dread of destroying lif in any frm. He fas alo retin thatthe emergence of the ‘non-violence’ movement yar of the AlFindian religious development and cannot be Selited tothe reformreligions ofthe Buddha and the Fina (oe ct ‘By Inhis treatment ofthe Brahmanic sources he begins with Manus Tule on meateating, He has convincingly demonstrated oe, ct, 17 ny)) that they contain three layers, which constitute three oceelive stages of historical development. In the frst layer the ‘ating of kosher animals is taken for granted inthe second meat- ‘ating is prohibited in daily life, but allowed and even compulsory inthe dual, and inthe third we find a strict wegetasanism which ‘vise againet animal sacrifices» In the earlier juridical texts ony the first stage attested. Man rales against ment-eting are based onthe ahims+octrine, and this doctrine goes in Man’ view, too beyond vestry VTictaanis, i would seem that vegetarianism i either a special “Kclopment of the ahimed-doctrine ri raft on it casera hi attention onthe history of vegetarianism, Alsdort has et sight ofthe diflerence between ahimea and vegetarianism ‘ough in the dicusion of the epic material Oe. ci 29 x). sere fl to notice the fact hatin these texts the consumption of SoG Tepabe of germination is considered as hime “nhy’, 10 Haare emt to fx the point at which and the reason why ‘guaniam became the mainstay of the aime string Feat that do not know the solution ofthis problem either, ‘ona might think that vegetarianism fs the popularize form of the —— eee Soe dav joinas (Bertin 1925), § 004.108.154 aimsbcoctrne wi ths sgeton oa mere, allthe more ine am 2 erigialy retried the tie ies and emai rather uns able utara onthe base loon 2 discussion ofthis ‘mater, obvious f docs not enter into any material forthe iy, because Ht doesnot furnish tofind out the ocginofthe sen ee to understand its magico ritual ~ we must search forthe himsa for the Brahmanic specific motiv Alsdort es on which Fenouncer i base, ra eee This | propose to do in point all the contexts sn ai ay mse PAPE I take as a starting by the Mam Smpsem "yi the injunction of ahimsa is given dktine and ty to tne thet back oe a these the Dharmas to earlier ins of Apasamba, Batdhapacs reek ; quoted by Alsdorf himself. 1. ¢. 69 4.7.

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