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FOREWORD...... INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. GENERAL REMARKS. THE LIMITS OF THE
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTER OF JINISM Northern India from the 7th to 5th Century B.C. Jinism and Buddhism. Heretical movements and Brahmanic movements : their link with Vedism. The influence on the heretical move.
ments of political, social and cultural conditions. CHAPTER II. THE TEXTS .
... ... Kappa and Vayahāra-sutta ; Nisiha-sutta ; Jiya-kappa, The commentaries, their authenticity and importance for the understanding of the canonical texts. Some of their pedagogical methods.
FIRST PART ORGANISATION OF THE MONASTIC LIFE THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE MONASTIC COMMUNITY. ...
samgha, gana (or gaccha), kula, parivāra, sambhoga. THE JAINA RELIGIOUS ; THEIR TITLES.
... ... niggantha, bhikkhu, samaņa niggantha, sāhammiya. The sāvekkha. The giyattha and agiyatthız (Cadept and <postulant), or yasaha and miga ( ebull> and <deer>); parināmaka, etc., vikovida, etc.; bahussuya babbhāgama €well versed in the text and its interpretations, instructed and learned. The niravekkha (iinakappiya, pārihāriya, ahalandiya). The Bodbisatta triumphs over the anguish experienced when living alone in the jungle.
The lax religious (pāsattha, etc.) THE HIERARCHY
nava, daharaga, taruna, majjhima, thera; senior> rainiya; the dignitaries : Uyariya, uvajjhaya, āyariya-uvajjhaya, pavatti and pavattini, ganavaccheiya and gaṇāvaccheiņi, thera ; the lowest
ranks : seha, antevusi, padicchaya. THE TEACHERS
... Negative choice. Their role. Positive choice : pariksa (sexami. nations, "marks of the ācārya”. Advantages of the teacher : honours and the elimination of his karman. The ideal life : that of the ayariya or that of the jinakappiya ?
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