Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
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Jambu-jyoti
Though the first explanation can also be defended - brahma-pada occurs in Sa. 'Brahmas Stätte' (PWB), here perhaps in the sense of 'excellent way'64. Pada is used in Pali as a synonym of patha (PED, s.v.)-I consider the second one more probable. The word occurs also with -vv-, e.g. MahānisīhaBh 1794. -Cf. also Ayar 2, 16, 2 an-anta-samaya, for which see Bollée 1990: 32.
Tassa etc.: 'this is the gain which a śramana is desirous of. Thus I say' (Jac).
2, 6, 21
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[sam]ārabhäte vaṇiyā bhūya-gāmaṁ pariggahaṁ c'eva mamāyamāṇā | te nāi-samjoga-m-avi ppahāya ayassa heum pagaranti sangaṁ
a: C: samärabhante hi vaṇiyā;-b: J: mamāyamīṇā;-d: V: pagarenti; J: pakarenti
Merchants kill many living beings and even though giving up the contact with/separating themselves from their relatives they acquire property; (in doing so) they take up a (karmatic) bond merely for the sake of material gain.
c: cf. Ayär 1, 2, 5, 3 where between pariggahaṁ and a-mamāyamāṇe the metre requires a short syllable like tu or ca;-c = 10 c;-d 19 b
Arabhate etc.: Jacobi takes this form as a sg. and renders ‘a merchant kills (...)'. On account of their business activities with many waggons, draught-animals and camels merchants kill living beings65.
Pariggaham du-padam caup-padaṁ dhanaṁ dhaṇṇa-hiraṇṇasuvannâ(d)i (Cũ 426, 4, similarly T). Sustaining a family compels the laymen to strive for property.
Pagaranti sangam: bhṛśaṁ karenti prakarenti, saktim sangaṁ (thus read in stead of samyam, Cũ 426, 7), sambandhaṁ kurvanti (T II 146 b 12). Cf. Ayar 1, 1, 7, 6 ārambha-sattā pakarenti sangaṁ '(... those are involved in sin who...) and engaging in acts, are addicted to worldliness' (Jac.), '... der Betätigung ergeben wirken sie Verknüpfung [mit der Welt]' (Schubring 1926: 72).