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its etymological sense (like the word 'influence of the Latin astrologers, adopted in English etc.1)
The Buddhists also use the word Samvara i.e. ŚrlaSamvara (restraint under the moral Law), and the participle Samvṛta (controlled), words which are not used in this sense by Erahmanical writers, and, therefore, are most probably adopted from Jainism, wherein their literal sense they adequately express the idea that they denote".2
6. Indirect evidence recorded by the Budhists of the importance and probable high antiquity of Jainism :-- (i) They mention the Jainas (the Niganthas) as
the opponents and converts of Buddha, and never imply, much less assert that they are a newly founded sect',.
(ii) They mention the older Nigantha Caityasof the Licchavis of Vaisall.
(iii) In the Samaññaphala Sutta of the Digha Nikaya, there is a reference to the 'four vows' (Caturyama Dharma) of Lord Parsva. Natha. "This passage is specially important as it shows that the Buddhists were also aware. of the older traditions of the Jainas with regard to the times and teachings of Lord Parsva Nätha", says Dr. Jacobi.
(iv) Makkhali Gośāla divides mankind into six classes. The third class is the Nigantha sect..
1. Jain Gazette, Jan. 1914, p. 3-12.
2. The Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. VII, p. 472. In his introduction to 'Bhagavan Mahavira and Mahātmā Buddha', Dr. B. C. Law gives many other examples of such borrowals and adoptations by the Buddhist from Jainism.
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