Adda or Oldest Extant Dispute between Jains and Heretics

Author(s): Willem B Bollee
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'Adda' or the Oldest Extant Dispute between....
2, 6, 22
vitt' -esino mehuna-sampagādhā te bhoyan' -atthā vaniyā vayanti | vayam tu kāmesu ajjhovavannā an-āriyā pema-rasesu giddhā 1
Property-minded and engaging in sexual relations these merchants say (they behave thus) to earn their living (or : wander around for pleasure). We, however, (believe that they are) given to the pleasures of the senses, not (serious) believers (and) lustful.
Mehunao : why this and pema-rasesu giddhā should be particularly characteristics of merchants is not clear. Does vaniyā in fact stands for (Jain) laymen? Then the reason why these characteristics are mentioned here would become understandable for many souls are destroyed in sexual intercourse67. Chastically as to the a-pāda here property and disregard for living beings are taken up once more in vs. 23 a.
Jinadāsa then admonishes those who live in that way by means of several quotations citing the first : śiśnôdara-krte, Pārtha ! (426, 9f.) at Cū 86, 7f. ad Ayār 1, 2, 5, 5 introduced by bhaniyam ca loge vi and completed as follows : prthivīm jetum icchasi/jaya śiśnodaram, Partha ! tatas te prthivi jitā. The first pāda reminds us of Mbh (cr. ed.) 1, 164, 13 b p. j. icchatā and the last one of Mbh 5, 148, 4 a tatas te prthivi-pälāh.
Vayanti : vrajanti (Cū 426, 8), to which Śīlanka adds : vadanti vā (T II 147a 1), perhaps because Ayär 1, 1, 7, 6 ārambhamānā viņayam vayanti / chandôvaniya vajjhovavannā / ārambha-sattā pakarenti sangam.
2, 6, 23
ārambhagam c'eva pariggaham ca a-viussiyā nissiya aya-dandā || tesiṁ ca se udae, jam vayasi, caur’ant'an-antāya duhāya, nêha ||
They neither give up killing nor property, but stick to it. They are inconsiderate, but their gain which you mentioned (will serve) them only to endless distress in the (whole) square (world), not only here.
A-viussiya : 'they do not abstain from (...)' (Jac.), avosirium (Cū 427, 1), a-vyutsriya-2-parityajya (T II 1472 4). If anywhere, it is with this rare