ahiṁsā
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 4 anchored passages
non-violence · abstention from injury · ahimsa
spoken of as
1 expressionnon-violence“ahiṃsā”1 mention
Manusmṛti (Sanskrit)
47 // Without having done violence to living beings, meat is nowhere produced;
in the texts
Manusmṛti
The principle of refraining from harming living beings, treated as both dietary ethic and ascetic virtue.
47 // Without having done violence to living beings, meat is nowhere produced;
By non-violence, by non-attachment to the senses, and by the Vedic rites, and by the practice of severe austerities, they attain that state here.
For just as the impurities of metals are burned away when they are smelted, so are the faults of the senses burned away by the restraint of the breath.
Vratisasana
The vow of non-violence, defined as not killing living creatures, especially humans, with detailed casuistry in the appendix over when killing is or is not permissible (offerings, self-defense, ordering another to kill).
*Ahiṁsā* is defined as not killing any living creature, especially a human being.
But if he was attacked first, and he does not obstruct the one who assaults him, is not shaken, and is then struck with words because of the extreme injustice of the words he heard, or because he himself was extremely insolent, and he does not retaliate against the one who commits violence, it is a *pantən* for him to do so.
[VS_29s-ab] *Ahiṁsā, brahmacarya, satya, non-engagement in worldly affairs,*