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________________ 246 : Prof. Walther Schubring before these splinters from the thought-workshop of the master. With us it goes similarly. If lucidity is sinned against here by terseness, the verses, on the other hand, nerly suffer from a surfeit of comparisons. Yet they are in most cases to the point, and if one remembers the renown enjoyed by the after all harmless allegory of the bees, Dasav, 1, the question arises why the Isibhasiyaim, which are so much richer in this respect, have fallen into nearly complete oblivion. We read some strange things in the Isibhasiyaim. Right in the 1st section (1,7.8) the fourth and fifth vows are contracted into one, as though we were still coneerned with the doctrine of Parsva, which did not know as yet of their separation, but which, on the other hand, expressed itself differently. Perhaps, Parsva stood indeed close to the author, and this would also explain the copiousness in the dictum of this "Rsi" (31). Section 20, which has already been referred to repeatedly, must have been especially dear to him, for in view of the super abundance of Rsis which we find among others in the Isimandala, the introduction of an anonymous utktaavadin would not have been necessary, while there is no indication whatever that these expositions have been added later. Before all the last of the five "grand speakers", for whom, as well as for these references in general , the commentary following below should be compared obtains, in the final portion, the explanation correct in itself in the materialistic sense. But while in the Suyagada, to which the passage is closely related with the refutation does follow after all (in II 1, 17) it is missing here, and the reader of No. 20 is left with the impression that the author shares the point of view of materialism. For he himself introduces it, though certainly only in the course of his elucidation, with the words : "therefore I rightly assert the following" (20, line 27), where the first person places itself at the side of those in section 21, 23, 24. We proceed. An allegory carried through, in Indian manner, upto the last point in 26 and 32 is based on the simile of the realization of dharma as of "divine farming" (divva kisi). Are we too sensitive if we remember that the 'breakin of the carth" is forbidden to the Jaina layman by
| SR No. | 004282 |
| Book Title | Prakirnak Sahitya Manan aur Mimansa |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sagarmal Jain, Suresh Sisodiya |
| Publisher | Agam Ahimsa Samta Evam Prakrit Samsthan |
| Publication Year | 1995 |
| Total Pages | 274 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 17 MB |