Critical Introduction to Panhavagara

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Amulyachandra Sen

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stated the views of atheists or materialists1) among whom have been named those who speak of the five khandhas 1 e the Buddhists), those who regard manas and those who regard vāyu (1 e ucchväs'ādi, Abh) as the essential principle Secondly are named the views of those who hold that the world has come out of an egg or it is made by Svayambhu himself or by Prajapati o isvara or by Visnu3) Thirdly is mentioned the doctrine of Samkhya1), though this term does not appear, but nothing other than the Samkhya doctrine is meant when it is said eko āyā akārako vedako ya sukayassa dukkayassa ya karanāni kāranāni savvahā savvahim ca nicco ya nikkio nigguno ya anuvalevo ttı (p 28b) Neither does Abh use the term - he says ätmâdvaitavādy-ādayah (p 34a bottom) Next are referred to the upholders of Yadrcchā-, Svabhāva-, Daiva- and Niyatı-vādas) A misreading should be corrected on p 28a, viz, bhāsanti he should be read as bhasant' iha, for the former gives no sense while the latter, besides being easily intelligible, fits into a vedha The nominatives in e in iha bhave ege bhave (p 28a, last line) look as if these were quotations from an older source, so also does pāna-vahe (p 28b, 1 1) Among this enumeration of here-, tical schools one misses the inclusion of the Ajivikas who used to figure so prominently in older diatribes against heretics
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Then it is said (pp 28b-30a) that falsehood is also spoken by liars, evil-speakers, those who steal entrusted property, those who give false evidence, those who point out the various animals and living beings to their destroyers and those who advise engaging in worldly pursuits As this part is of secular interest we
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1) Schrader, Ueber den Stand der indischen Philosophie zur Zeit Mahaviras und Buddhas, has fully studied the Jaina references in Suya and other texts bearing on these views, also see Barua, History of Pre-Buddhistic Ind Philosophy
2) The Jaina passages bearing on whom, as well as those on Samkhyas and Puranists, in Suya etc have been dealt with in the present writer's Schools and Sects in Jaina Literature
3) These are the views of Puranists see n 2, supra The mention of the cult of Visnu points to a late age
4) see n 2, supra
5) see n 1, supra