Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
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W. B. Bollée
Jambu-jyoti
(Adda speaks :)
Every single person, however, who professes a religious life, however, praises his own persuasion and makes it publicly known.
Vayam: vai corrected as vayam (Cū 421, 4) resp. vācam (T II 143 a 6). For this reading there are therefore two, for the interpretation several possibilities, all supposing not very satisfactory presumptions, e.g. vaim requires an unfound Old Indian etymon *vācī, the -- of which became -ain a pretonic position (Pi § 413)34. Furthermore, for Pā. vacī PED only gives Sn 472 and for the rest takes this form to be a compound form of vaco. Vayam could also be an accusative and equal Sa, vacas, also in Pă. (Gg. S 99), yet apparently in both middle Indo-Aryan canonical languages only the instr. of this word occurs, in Pā. also vaco - Amg. vao. Finally, the Amg. equivalent of Sa, vrata could be considered which, however, semantically does not fit here very well.
Pāu-kuvam : in the canonical seniors pāu-karai is restricted to Süy and Utt and has for objects dhammam (Sūy 1, 2, 2, 7 and 1, 12, 19), vinayam (Utt 1, 1) and āyāram (Utt 11, 1). Old Pāli (e.g. Sn 316 with dhammam) is no help to our problem either and the same holds true for imam, which is acc. sg. mfn. (Pi § 430).
Pāvāino : 'philosophers' (Jac.); pravadana-śīlā prāvādukāh (Cū 421, 7), similarly Śīlânka. This word, as well as semantically in fact also the four preceding stanzas, must probably be connected with Ayār 1, 4, 2 and 3, esp. 1, 4, 2, 6, where pāvāuyā are addressed, and with 1, 4, 3, 2* pavaiya and Sūy 2, 2, 80 pāvāuyā. Schubring renders the Ayār references by 'Widerredner' and gives as their etymon JHS prāvādika prāvāduka resp.; cf. Pā. păvadati 'to dispute'(PED). Sa. pravādin has a short first syllable and a slightly different meaning.
Pudho : cf. 1, 1, 3, 13 cd pudho pāvāuyā savve akkhāyāro saya sayar. 2, 6, 12
te anna-m-annassa u garahamānā, akkhanti bho ! samanā mähana ya sao ya atthi a-sao ya n'atthi garahamo ditthim, na garahāmo kimci !!