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).
[VS_29s-ab] *Ahiṁsā, brahmacarya, satya, non-engagement in worldly affairs,*
*Ahiṁsā* is defined as not killing any living creature, especially a human being.
[VS_appendix-04j§3] For if the vow of *ahiṁsā* is not protected, due to anger, delusion, intoxication, pride, and envy, and especially due to desire, that is a *pantən*.