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In all the other texts the annautthiyas are anonymous and their views are generally treated in the following stereotyped way: Goy. informs Mv. that the dissidents proclaim such-andsuch a view and asks the Master's opinion on it; Mv. answers that such-and-such a view is heretical and that he proclaims such-and-such other view in this concern. 34 This treatment. with unimportant variants, is found in 1 94. 101.2, II 51.7, V 34. 52. 65, VI 101.3, VIII 101, XVII 22.3 and XVIII 71. As a rule Mv. only states his view of the matter without giving any arguments in its favour. These entries consequently only either record on which points the Jaina creed holds an opinion that is different from scil., in most cases, is the exact opposite of the dissident one, or confirm a Jaina tenet rejected by the dissidents (I wola, VIII 7') or show that certain dissident views are only half truths (VI 101, VIII 101, XVII 22).
A nucleus of argumentation is found only in two places where the dissidents accuse the Jainas, viz the Elders in VIII 71 and Goy. in XVIII 82, of undisciplinedness, harmfulness and foolishness. The text again is very stereotypic i.e. in agreement with the general pannatti-style and its interminable repetitions.35 Moreover, the charge against Goy. is only a variant of the second charge against the theras.
The chief interest of these refutations is in the fact that they inform us on some of the most disputed Jaina tenets. The main topics of discussion seem to have been the Jaina doctrine of the impossible simultaneity of certain actions36 and conditions (I 94. 102, II 5", V 31; probably also XVII 24), the so-called irrevocabile factum tenet (I 101, VIII 72), the theory of the five fundamental entities (VII 101, XVIII 74) and esp. of matter (I 101) and soul
34 annautthiya nam bhante (evam äikkhanti evam bhāsanti evam pannaventi evam parūventi): the dissidents' opinion », se kaham eyam bhante evam ? - 'Goyama jam ņam te annautthiya Kevam āikkhanti etc.) < ... >, je te evam āhamsu micchă (or miccham) te evam āhamsu. aham puna Goyamā evam (āikkhāmi etc.): Mv.'s opinion.
35 In VIII 71 the Elders conclude the discussion with the enunciation of a 'contradictory utterance' (pavāya, see Lehre par. 38).
36 A similar annautthiya-text on the impossibility of performing an orthodox and an heretical act (sammatta-kiriyā and micchatta-k.) simultaneously is found in Jiv, 142 b.
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