Abstention

Mbh.3.311.15492	Abstention from injury is the highest virtue, and is, I ween, even higher than the highest object of attainment.
Mbh.7.190.10515	Abstention from injury to all creatures hath been said to be the highest of all virtues.
Mbh.8.69.4000	Abstention from injury to animals is, I think, the highest virtue.
Mbh.12.21.922	Abstention from injury, truthfulness of speech, justice, compassion, self-restraint, procreation of offspring upon one's own wives, amiability, modesty, patience, the practice of these is the best of a religions as said by the self-create Manu himself.
Mbh.12.64.3578	Abstention from injury, truth, suppression of wrath, supporting Brahmanas and kinsmen by giving them their dues, maintenance of wives and children, purity, peacefulness, making presents to Brahmanas at sacrifices of every kind, are duties that should be practised by every person of this class who desire his own prosperity.
Mbh.12.78.4426	Abstention from injury, truthfulness of speech, benevolence, compassion, these are regarded as penances by the wise and not the emaciation of the body.
Mbh.12.83.4750	Abstention from agreeable speeches makes him so.
Mbh.12.123.7111	Abstention from injury, by act, thought, and word, in respect of all creatures, compassion, and gift, constitute behaviour that is worthy of praise.
Mbh.12.161.9585	Abstention from injury as regards all creatures in thought, word, and deed, kindness, and gift, are the eternal duties of those who are good.
Mbh.12.190.11402	Abstention from injury, truth, and absence of wrath, produce the merit of penances in all the four modes of life.
Mbh.12.195.11726	The declarations of the Vedas preach Abstention from rites, are fraught with tranquillity, and are concerned with Brahma
Mbh.12.205.12425	Abstention from acts is the highest religion.
Mbh.12.211.12796	Abstention from acts is observed by those that are possessed of great wisdom.
Mbh.12.226.13973	Abstention from injury is the highest religion.
Mbh.12.271.16724	Abstention from injury is that religion which is complete in respect of its rewards.
Mbh.12.287.18023	Abstention from sinful acts, constancy of righteous disposition, good behaviour towards those that are good and pious, these, without doubt, constitute excellence.
Mbh.12.301.18918	Abstention from injury, and Truth, are its boundary line.
Mbh.12.309.19481	Ascertaining the merits of the religion of Acts and that of Abstention from acts, do thou, with concentrated senses, be devoted to the practices of righteousness that appertain to thought, words, and deed.
Mbh.12.329.20956	Abstention from sinful acts, steady practice of righteousness, good conduct, the due observance of all religious duties, these constitute the highest good.
Mbh.13.22.3233	Bhishma said, Abstention from injury to others, truthfulness, the absence of wrath forgiveness, compassion, self-restraint, and sincerity or candour, O monarch, are the indications of Righteousness.
Mbh.13.93.8333	Jamadagni said, Abstention from accepting guts supports penances as their foundation.
Mbh.13.113.10195	SECTION CXIII Yudhishthira said, Abstention from injury, the observance of the Vedic ritual, meditation, subjugation of the senses, penances, and obedient services rendered to the preceptors, which amongst these is fraught with the greatest merit with respect to a person'
Mbh.13.115.10283	Abstention from injury is the highest religion.
Mbh.13.116.10431	Abstention from cruelty is the highest Religion.
Mbh.13.116.10432	Abstention from cruelty is the highest self-control.
Mbh.13.116.10433	Abstention from cruelty is the highest gift.
Mbh.13.116.10434	Abstention from cruelty is the highest penance.
Mbh.13.116.10435	Abstention from cruelty is the highest sacrifice.
Mbh.13.116.10436	Abstention from cruelty is the highest puissance.
Mbh.13.116.10437	Abstention from cruelty is the highest friend.
Mbh.13.116.10438	Abstention from cruelty is the highest happiness.
Mbh.13.116.10439	Abstention from cruelty is the highest truth.
Mbh.13.116.10440	Abstention from cruelty is the highest Sruti.
Mbh.13.141.11607	Maheswara said, Abstention from injury, truthfulness of speech, compassion towards all beings, tranquillity of soul, and the making of gifts to the best of one's power, are the foremost duties of the householder.
Mbh.13.141.11608	Abstention from sexual congress with the spouses of other men, protection of the wealth and the woman committed to one's charge, unwillingness to appropriate what is not given to one, and avoidance of honey and meat, these are the five chief duties.
Mbh.13.141.11798	Abstention from all luxurious viands prepared from cow's milk, taking a pleasure in tranquillity of heart, lying on bare rocks or the earth, devotion to Yoga, eating potherbs and leaves of trees, and subsisting upon fruits and roots and wind and water and moss, are some of the practices of the Rishis by which they attain to the end that belongs to persons unsubjugated by the world.
Mbh.13.162.13520	Abstention from injury, truth, absence of wrath or forgiveness, and liberality of gifts, these four, O king, that hast no foe, do thou practise, for these four constitute eternal Righteousness!
Mbh.14.28.1120	Abstention from cruelty is the foremost of all deities.
Mbh.14.43.1752	Abstention from injury is the highest duty.
Mbh.14.46.1948	Abstention from harm, Brahmacharyya, truth, simplicity, freedom from wrath, freedom from decrying others, self-restraint, and habitual freedom from backbiting: these eight vows, with senses restrained, he should steadily pursue.
Mbh.14.50.2080	Abstention from harming any creature is regarded as the foremost of all duties.
Mbh.14.90.4240	Abstention from injury as regards all creatures, contentment, conduct, sincerity, penances, self-restraint, truthfulness, and gifts are each equal in point of merit to sacrifice'

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

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