Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
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Jambu-jyoti
taly)-úvame samane Naya-putte
icc eva me hoi mai viyakka | a : VJ : uday,—C:V: tayovame; J: tauvame;--- : V: viyakko
Theśramana Nāyaputta acts just as a profit-oriented merchant procures goods for his income (and) thereby a karmic bond/dependence (from others). This is my view and opinion.
b 21 d
Right from the start Gosāla's attack was directed against Mahāvīra's alleged inconsequence : the fact that he first lived alone and then decided to go into the public eye surrounded by monks and to proclaim his teaching (vss. 1-2).
Jacobi's rendering of the first line runs : 'As a merchant desirous of gain (shows) his wares and attracts a crowd to do business (...)', which involves the assumption of a hard zeugma or a complementary verb to pannam as provided by the commentaries, Prakaroti means 'vollbringen, ausführen, bewirken, veranstalten, machen, anfertigen; s.aneignen, nehmen (daran ein Weib' (pwb) as far as concerns the meanings possible here. The doctrine, which is not expressed clearly, represents Mahāvīra's true doctrine; the asyndetically connected words pannam and sangam share the notion of binding and form a unity of contrasts--the material and the spiritual—which their chiastic position underlines.
Pannam : glossed by śīlanka inter alia as camphor, aloe, musk and amber61
Oday'-atthi: cf. Pā.uday'-atthika (AnguttaraN II 199, 20) where the Jain Sākya Vappa complains to the Buddha that he is like a merchant making every effort to sell his goods yet does not realize any profit. As a disciple Mahāvīra's he would believe himself seyyathāpi (...) puriso uday'-atthiko assa paniyaṁ poseyya so udayam c'eva na labheyya. The commercial simile may be typical of the Jains and testifies to the great age of their professional activity (cf. also vs. 21).
Āyassa heun : cf. bahu-janna-m-attham in vs. 2.
Pagarei sangam : "samja samge" samjanam saktir vā samgah (Cū 425, 7; pagarei is not glossed), maha-jana-sangam vidhatte (T II 146a 12). See further infra at vs. 21.