Doctrine of Jainas

Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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examples The room enclosing the figures mentioned in Nayadh. is called the jina-ghara. Anuog. 158d; Panhav. 123a do mention the deula 'devahula' next to the thubha and profane establishments (Comp. also Jambudd. 207a)'.
§26. The discoveries made at Mathura seem to prove by the nakedness of the sculptured figures that the schism of the Order into Svetambara and Digambara dites from as early as the 2nd century A.D. Mahavira had put up with clothing, and it was generally considered worthy to follow his example. He who in the one or the other formality took his conduct as a model for his own was in the state of jina-happa, ordinary monls followed the thera-happa. The question of clothing was treated liberally, and there is reason to assume that especially those monks adhering to Pasa's teaching kept their clothing". Hence it follows that even in the carly days of antiquity there was a duplicity existing which we may call the germ of the later schism of the Order into the "Naked" (digambara, asambara, dig-tāsas) and the "Whites" (svetambara, sveta-pala, sitambara, etc.). The Svetambaras report (Av mjj. 418a) on the heresy committed by Bodiya Sıvabhūi in the year 609 after My, who wanted the jina-kappa to be made generally acknowledged and who himself accepted it notwithstanding the warmings of his guru Originally, however, this has nothing to do with the Digambaras and was related to them only later. The year given by the Dig. is 136 Vikrama 79 A.D.", and it is at this time that the Svetämbaras
I Nemi-Pase subhatla (subhakta)-säläsu vibhāga-kusale (ie. the royal architect)
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BÜHLER WZKM 4, 330 f
Comp Devendra ZDMG 38, 6
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4 There is a parallel to this in that the texts of the Canon are said to be partly the words of the Jina disciple Sudharman and partly those of the thera, either being equally obliging for the community thera-kappa-t!hri K 6, 14 must be altered corr to the above
The translation of
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For this and the following comp JACOBI ZDMG 38, iff (Jira kalpa p 7), 40, 92 ff and SBC 45, XXXI, also WEBER, Kup P 797 f 6 Differently BHANDARKAR Rep 1883-84, Notes p III
7 The same year is reported (Dams 11ff) by the Dig. Devasena (S 909) for the separation of the Sevada Sangha, 1 e the Svetambara, from the Dig, owing to the heresy of Jinacandra who in teaching it slew his teacher Santi, a pupil of Bhadrabahu (Devasena in the Bhavasargaha, comp Dams P 55 ff) It is said to have taken place at Valahi where the monks had emigrated