The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.258

c8.258

And what applies to the archer, applies as well to the bow, the arrow, the sinew, the arrow-feathers, etc.⁴ If, however, beings are injured by the arrow falling down on them from the air, then the above mentioned objects have committed but the first four actions, whereas those beings catching up the falling arrow (? uvaggahe ciṭṭhanti) have committed all five. As is shown by Viy 181a; Ṭhāṇ. 39b; Pannav. 435a and also by the sub-division (which may be left aside), it concerns physical, instrumental, hostile, tormenting and murderous action. Here, too, acc. to Pannav. 443b a table of the mutual relativity might be drawn up. But we dwell on it as little as we do on the bridge which (439a) is thrown for binding the *kamma-pagaḍi*, and on other statements. The five groups of 5 each as presented above, reappear as the 25 *kriyā* in Umāsvāti’s Bhāṣya on T. 6, 6, though partly in a different composition which may, perhaps, be ascribed a greater logical coherence than presented by the passages of the Canon.