Adda Or Oldest Extant Dispute Between Jains And Heretics

Author(s): W B Bollee
Publisher: W B Bollee

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W. B. BOLLEE
ADDA OR THE OLDEST EXTANT DISPUTE BETWEEN JAINS AND HERETICS (SUYAGADA 2, 6)
PART TWO
After shaking off? Gosāla, Adda on his way to Mahāvīra is met by some Buddhist monks who explain to him, in an exaggerated and ridiculed way, as is easily done in such cases, their view that the intention prevails over the act, with meat consumption as an example.
2, 6, 26
pinnäga-pindi-m-avi viddhã süle kei paejjā "purise ime” tti alāuyam vâvi “kumārae” tti sa lippai pāņi-vahena amham
a: Cu: viddhum; J: viddhu; - b: T: kei, - c: Cu: kumārao; L: kumāraga; - d: J: pāna-vahena
IF SOMEONE PUTS A BALL OF OILCAKE ON A SPIT AND ROASTS IT WITH THE IDEA: THIS IS A MAN, OR A GOURD, THINKING IT TO BE A BABY, HE BECOMES FOR US SOILED/SOILS HIMSELF FOR US WITH KILLING A LIVING BEING
d: cf. 27d
Pinnāga-pindī etc.: If (a savage) thrusts a spit through the side of a granary, mistaking it for a man (...)'. Thus Jacobi who, conscious of the seemingly strange notion, dedicates to it a note in which he also paraphrases the commentators.7 One can object that if the granaries were made of (wattle and) mud it would be hardly possible for a part of it to be taken hold of with a spit. Jacobi here refers to 19th cent. granaries in Bihār of which, however, Grierson does not mention a beehive-shaped form. There have been found granaries dating from the Kuşana era, some of which are still in use in Surkh Kotal and
Journal of Indian Philosophy 27: 411-437, 1999. © 1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands.