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the rule--not asking for food-seems to have been followed with greater exactness. Oldenburg says “in the days when his reputation stood at its highest point and his name was named throughout India, among the forein jst nanies, o:e might day by day see that man before whoin kings bowed themselves, walking about, alus bowl in hand through streets and alleys, from horise to house, and without uttering any request, with down. Cast look, stand silently wating until a morsel of food was thrown into his bowl.”
We shall close this comparison with some general remarks, about the monastic orders founded by Buddha and Mahavira. During the fifth, sixth and seventh centuries B.c., the ordinary tendency of the Indian mind for metaphysical questions was greatly intensi. fied. The exclusiveness of Brahmans, the claims they inade to be the necessary media. tors between man and his Creator, had causad many men to devise some means of attain.
ing Nirvana without the help of the Brah. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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