Aspects of Jaina Monasticism

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia, Mahendramuni
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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tinha mpi samāoge
mokkho jiņasāsane bhanioll 15 A History of Indian Literature, vol. I (2nd edition, 1972), pp. 225-227. 16 Sūtras no. 16 ff. 17 XXVI. 60 :
bāhitapāpo ti brāhmano samacariyā samaņo ti vuccati/ pabbäjayam attano malam
tasmā pabbajito ti vuccati// 18 XXV. 30. 19 Cf. Āyāro, III. 1. 4.(J.V.B.) 20 Cf. Ibid., IV. 4.44.(J.V.B.) 21 II. 4.9. 22 VIII, verses 30 and 31 :
kva brahma kva ca durmedhāh kva samnyāsaḥ kva vā kalih/ svädvannabhakşakāmena veşo'yam yoginām dhệtaḥ/ kva svargah kva duräcārah kvāgnihotram kva va kalih/ manye maithunakāmena
veşo'yam karmiņām dhệtah// 23 D.C. Sircar : Inscriptions of Asoka (Publication Division, Ministry of Informa
tion and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, Delhi, April, 1967), p. 24. 24 VI. 89-90 25 Sāntiparva, XXIII. 5. 26 Tattvārtha Sūtra, X. 7. Also Uttarajjhayaņāņi, XXXVI. 52. 27 Uttarajjhayaņāņi, V. 20. 28 II, p. 75. 29 It is interesting to note in this connection that the Jaina triad of gems (ratna
traya) refers to samyagdarśana. samyagjñāna and samyak caritra (see Puruşārthasiddhyupāya, verses 209, 220) and not the buddha, dhamma, and sangha as in Buddhism. The Jaina counterpart of the Buddhist triad of gems (tiratana) is the tetrad of arahanta, siddha, sāhu and dhamma-which are called mangala, loguttama, and sarana (see Padikkamanajjhayana, 12-14). It is evident that in this Jaina tetrad the arahantas and the siddhas jointly correspond to the buddhas and the sūhus to the sangha of the Buddhist triad. In the Jaina incantation the following is recited instead of the Buddhist "buddham saranam gacchami, dhammam s. g., sangham s.g. :
cattari saranam pavajjāmi-arahante saraņam pavajjāmi, siddhe saranam pavajjāmi, sāhū saranam pavajjāmi; kevalipaņņattam dhammam Saranam pavajjāmi. (Ibid., 14).
The Prakrit expression pavajjāmi (Skt. prapadye) in place of Pali gaccāmi deserves notice. The influence of the prapatti concept of the Bhakti cult is obvious on the Prakrit expression pavajjämi.
For the doctrine of prapatti see Krishna : Myths, Rites and Attitudes, edited by Milton Singer, University of Chicago Press. Chicago and London, 1964, pp. 157-59.