Ahimsa-Anuvrata :

Taking into account the extreme severity involved in the observance of Ahimsa Mahavrata, the Jain scriptures have prescribed the vow of Ahimsa with less degree of intensity for the observance by the householders and called it as Ahimsa Anuvrata. that is, “Refraining from injuring living beings, having two or more senses, with a deliberate act of the mind, speech or body.

Thus, in Ahimsa Anuvrata, a layman does not intentionally injure any form of life above the class of one-sensed beings (vegetables and the like), by an act of the mind, speech or body by himself, by inciting others to commit such an act, nor by approving of it subsequent to its commission by others.