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
Nihāya: dandah – samupatāpas (pain'; not in MW), tam nidhāya - parityajya (T II 152a 5). For the pāda b, which has a parallel at the beginning of the Rhinoceros sutta of the Suttanipāta pāli; see Norman's comment and further parallels in his translation (The Group of Discourses, p. 144f.). Note the genitive in our pāda against the locative in Pali. – The occurrence of this parallel shows the patchwork of the present stanza, which is not surprising, as the content is pan-Indian. Anudhammo: jahā loe aņurāino dhammo (...)24 evam ihậpi; anu paścād-bhāvēti krtvā tīrthakara-ganadharehim varjitam uddesitam, tad-anu tac-chisyah api pariharanti, athavā anuḥ sūksma ity arthah (Cū 436, 1 f.). - For anudhamma the CPD gives the meaning 'right method'; see also BHSD.
2, 6, 42
niggantha-dhammammi imam samāhim assim su-thiccă an-ihe carejjā buddhe muni sīla-gunovavee accatthayam pāunai silogam
a: C: -dhammāna (corrected as: dhammammi) imo; LJ: imă samāhī; - d: T: -attham corrected as -atthato; L: ihaccanam; J: iccatthatam
(Having reached) THAT DEEP MEDITATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS (as aspired to/necessary) AND HAVING ESTABLISHED ONESELF FIRMLY IN IT, ONE SHOULD PRACTISE WITH EQUANIMITY. THE ENLIGHTENED MONK WHO OBSERVES MORAL CONDUCT AS WELL AS THE FIVE MAJOR VOWS AND THE TEN RENUNCIATIONS COMES TO VERY GREAT FAME.
ab: cf. 55 ab; b: cf. 1, 14, 16
Niggantha-o: the words in brackets correspond to silânka's anuprāptah (T II 152a 10), without which the lines cannot be construed. The fact that imam (...) su-thiccā occurs at 1, 14, 15f. to which the explanation of imam as pūrvôktam refers (T, 1.c.) may also point to our stanza being patchwork. At any rate it seems that the words imam etc. were taken from another context. Anihe: a-māyo 'thavā nihanyata iti niho; na niho 'nihah - parīşahair a-pīdito (T II 152a 11), cf. Pā anigha (see CPD). . Muni: kāla-traya-vedī (II 152a 12).