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JAINISM AND BUDDHISM
Mahathera Buddhist monk of Dodundawa (Ceylon) late Professor Tokyo University, Udân 8 varga, describes Nirvana thus :
" There is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed. If there were not this unborn, this unoriginated, this uncreated, this unformed, escape from the world of the born, the originated, the created, the formed, would not be possible. But since there is an unborn, unoriginated, uncreated, unformed, therefore is escape possible from the world of the horn, the originated, the created, the formed.”
The Pali text is as follows :
* Atthi bhikkhave ajâtain abhiitam akatam asankhatam noched bhikkhave abhavissa (jatam abhutam akatam asankhatam na ida jätassa bhûtassa katassa sånkhatassa nissaranam pajna ya, yasıncî cha kho bhikkhave atthi ajâtain abhitam akatam asankhatam tasma jätassa bhítassa katassa sankhatassa nissaraņam pajnâ yâti.
This clearly shows that Nirvana itself is such, or there is some thing in “ Nirvâna” condition which is uncreated. And it cannot be anything else than ___ * “ अत्थि भिख्खवे अजातं अभूतं अकतं असंखतं नो चेद् भिख्खवे अभविस्सा अजातं अभूतं अकतं असंखतं न इद जातस्स भूतस्स कतस्स संखतस्स निस्सरणं पज्ञायां यस्मा च खो भिख्खवे अस्थि अजातं अभूतं अकतं असंखतं तस्मा जातस्स भूतस्स कतस्स संखतस्स निस्सरणं पज्ञाणायति ॥"
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