Contribution of Jainas to Sanskrit and Prakrit Literature

Author(s): Vasantkumar Bhatt, Jitendra B Shah, Dinanath Sharma
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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Lokatattvanirņaya by Haribhadrasuri
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thunderbolt, and one who is empty of mind like a strainer during the course of dialogue, make the mind tardy like a buffalo (in dirty water), and become faulty like an elephant. (3).
This (knowledge) is stated to be (useless) like the churning of water; it is indeed meaningless like instruction to) a deaf man or like dance in front of a blind man. (knowledge) shall therefore(be imparted only) on the noble. (4).
If the pupil fails to be enlightened, it is indeed the dullness of the teacher, just like cows made to descend on a barren field. (5).
Or, what could a teacher do with a dull student, even if he himself were endowed with nice speech ? Similarly is even a pointed axe broken on hard and stuffy wood. (6). Importance of Scriptures
Creation of good regard for the scriptures in case (of a man whose) intellect is not calm and tranquil, will be faulty just like quelling (medicines) in case of a fever that is excited recently. (7).
Just as, in the case of a blindman, the rising moon and the sun as also a long series of lamps that are lighted even if they be pure, are in no way beneficial, so is the case of preaching to persons blinded by the darkness (of ignorance) (or, blinded by the tamoguņa. (8).
It is like a serpent and a cow drinking water from the same pond and resulting in poison in a snake and the same transforming itself into milk in a cow. (9).
When a gentleman and a rogue drink of the water of knowledge from the pond of rightful knowledge, it results in truth in case of a gentleman, but the same is transformed into falsehood in case of a rogue. (10).
The same tasty (water) pours down from the skies, and, on reaching the ground attains to different tastes following the different particulars. (11).
In a similar way even one good sentence with one taste comes out of the mouth of a good speaker, attains to varied tastes on coming to different. (12). Adhikari
Just as the owl on account of its own defect, dares not to look at sunrise, and just as he dares not to go to in spite of very much similar pāka, in a similar