Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
Publisher: Z_Nirgranth_Aetihasik_Lekh_Samucchay_Part_1_002105.pdf and Nirgranth_Aetihasik_Lekh_Samucchay_Part_2

Page 13

60
W. B. Bollée
Jambu-jyoti
(Ascetics, ) who use unboiled water or seeds, food especially prepared for alms receivers or who enjoy women-know these things ! --are laymen, not monks.
Szódagam etc : with regard to this the Jains originally sided with the Ajīvikas, as Sūy 1, 3, 4, 1 sqq. show.
Jana : T II 1426 1: jānīhi, jāna is found also at Āyār 1, 3, 1, 1. 2,6,9
biyā ya sīódaga itthiyao padisevamänä samanā bhavanti | agārino vi samanā bhavantu; sevanti ū te vi taha-ppagāram |
d:T: u tam vi
a: TVJ : siyā ya biodaga;-b: thus J; TV: bhavantu; V:ū tam pi, J: sevanti jam te vi.
If (ya) those who use seeds and unboiled water, and enjoy women are monks, then also laymen must be monks as they, too, practise such a regimen,
Cū has a lacuna here : pratīka, comment and stanza number 677 are left out. Śīlânka explains : syād etad bhavadiyam matam yatha : te ekântacarinah (...) katham te na tapasvina ity etad āśankyârdraka āha : yadi bijâdyupabhogino 'pi śramanā ity evar bhavatâbhyupagamyate, evam tarhi (...). Though siyä is typical for Jainism, it seems to me an early copyist's error influenced by the next stanza.
U : tu-r-avadharane (T II 142 b 6). A restriction, however, does not fit here, rather a reason or a confirmation. U, therefore, may stand here for va = eva.
2, 6, 10
je yâvi bíódaga-bhoi bhikkhū bhikkham c' iham jayai jiviy-atthi | te näi-samjoga-m-avi ppahaya kāyôvagā n' anta-karā bhavanti |
a:C: je yâvi sītôdagam eva (emended as : biodaga bhoti) bhikkhü;b: C ca iha; TVJ vihaṁ (T II 142b 8: bhiksāṁ ca);-d:J: 'nantakarā