Jain Journal 2003 01

SR No.: 520149
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 58
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 4 MB

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JAIN JOURNAL : VOL-XXXVII, NO. 3 JAN 2003
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29. YS, 2. 38, f.96b. Cf.YS, 3.10 :
na jānāti para- sva- vā madyāccalitacetanah/ svāmiyati varākah sva- svāminā- kinkariyati //
(f.2576)
Jayantabhatta, too, employs the same derogatory adjective, varākah to the Cārvaka-s. See NM, Ch.3, Part 1, p. 299.
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30. In his auto-commentary, Hemacandra explains varāka as one who
is to be pitied because of his lack of pride (dambharahitatvād anukampyah), f.97a. Elsewhere, too (e.g., on YS, 3.10), he says, a varāka is one who is worthy of pity because of his lack of
consciousness (varākscaitanyahīnatvādanukampaniyaḥ, f.258a) 31. TSPC, I. 325-45. 32. Cf. Sak, JM, UBHPK, YTC. 33. Trans. Helen M. Johnson, Vol. 1, pp. 37-38. 34. For the Cārvāka fragments, see Namai, pp. 39-44 and Ramkrishna
Bhattacharya (2002), pp. 1-44. 35. See SBh on BS, 1.1.1, 2.2.2, 3.3.53-54; TS, Ch. 22 and TSP;
PKM, pp. 48-49, 110-21, 177-80; NKC, 3.7, pp. 341 ff. 36. As against the widely prevalent notion that the Cārvāka-s were
gross hedonists, Richard Garbe (ERE, Vol.8, p. 138) and M. Hiriyanna (1932, p. 195) expressed their doubts, but writers of modern textbooks and handbooks of Indian philosopohy prefer to pepetuate the unsupported notion propagated by the opponents of the Cārvāka, mostly through poems and plays like PC, Act 2, NC,
17. 58-59, 69, 70. 37. See Ramkrishna Bhattacharya (1999b) and (2002a) for further
details. 38. In ĀD, Act 1, both a Buddhist and a Jain monk are portrayed as
despicable sensualists, but Çārvāka is spared. In Act 3 he is represented as a sober philosopher with whom the āstika-s are
engaged in a prolonged debate. 39. Epicurus has been maligned as a gross sensualist as early as the first
century BCE in a poem by Horace (Epistles, 1.4.14-16). Horace