Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra

SR No.: 011060
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller
Total Pages: 500
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
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GAINA SOTRAS.
has been found in Brahmanical literature that the name of the real author of the Vaisêshika was Rðhagupta, and his Gôtra the Kausika Gôtra ; nor can Rôhagupta and Kanada be taken as different names of the same person, because their Gôtras also differ. Kânâda, follower of Kanada, means etymologically crow-eater, owl; hence his system has been nicknamed Aulukya Darsana, owl-philosophy. In Rohagupta's second name, Khuluya, which stands for Shadulaka?, allusion is made to the owl,' probably to the Kanadas; but the Gainas refer ulûka to the Gôtra of the Rôhagupta, viz. Kausika, which word also means owl. As the unanimous tradition of the Brahmans deserves the preference before that of the Gainas, we can most easily account for the latter by assuming that Rôhagupta did not invent, but only adopted the Vaisêshika philosophy to support his schismatical views.
About the two works translated in this volume, the Uttaradhyayana and Satrakritânga, I have little to add to the remarks of Professor Weber in the Indische Studien, vol. xvi, p. 259 ff., and vol. xvii, p. 43 ff. The Satrakritânga is probably the older of the two, as it is the second Anga, and the Angas obtain the foremost rank among the canonical books of the Gainas, while the Uttaradhyayana, the first Malasůtra, belongs to the last section of the Siddhânta. According to the summary in the fourth Anga the object of the Satrakritânga is to fortify young monks against the heretical opinions of alien teachers, to confirm them in the right faith, and to lead them to the highest good. This description is correct on the whole, but not exhaustive, as will be seen by going over our table of contents. The work opens with the refutation of heretical doctrines, and the same object is again treated at greater length in the
1 See my edition of the Kalpa Sátra, p. 119.
. Literally Six-owl. The number six refers to the six categories of the Vaisêshika.
3 Part i, p. 290. But in the legend translated by Professor Leumann, 1. c., p. 121, his Gôtra is called Khalid.