Doctrine of Jainas

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

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AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JAINISM Haribhadra who was a Brahman by birth and probably also for this reason frequently proved considerably impartial in his treatises?, and accomplished by Sīlānka (872 A.D.), and Prakrit treatises have long continued to be written. But the use of Sanskrit coming in was significant. By editing his Tattvārthādhigama in the shape of Sūtras (imitated by Haribhadra in his Dharmabindu) Umāsvātı followed Brahman models, and by doing so he led the Svet. out of the narrow circle and made them become competitive. Umāsvāti also appears in the lists of the Dig.; but there is no doubt that he was a Svet., since the Dig. do not acknowledge the Bhāsya he himself wrote for his Sūtras, but use their own comments instead. They have changed the basic text, too, if only inconsiderably. Among the authors following Umāsvāti the above mentioned competitiveness led to arguments and disputes of remarkable dialectic refinement with both Buddhists and Brahmans. On the part of the Svet. we have to mention Siddhasena Divākara and Haribhadra as contestants to Dharmakirti (about 650)*, while among the Dig. we have Samantabhadra (1st half of the 8th century), Akalanka (2nd half of the 8th century), Vidyānanda (Pātrakesarın) and Prabhācandra (1st half of the 9th centurry) as opponents to Kumārila and Sāntaraksita. Vidyānanda also stood up against Samkara. After the unanimously testified decline of Buddhism in South India it was in the personality of Kumārıla that "the Mímāmsā flourished for a short while. It was followed (thanks to the Dig.) by a Jain reaction culminating during the reign
I LEUMANN ZDMG 46, 582 , For H 's life and works sec JACOBI, Samaráicc, p I ff The Yogabindu (Bo 1911) and Yogadşsțisamuccaya (DLJP 12, Bo 1912) ed by SUALI are no Jain works
2 For a confrontation of thc two versions of the Tatty scc edition by JAINI SBJ 2 A critical discussion about them and the author of the Bhāşya by GHATAGE JUB 4 p 105-111
3 Hinted at already also by U himself, comp compilation by HR KAPADIA ABORI 14, 142-144. For polemics of Buddhists and Brahmans against the Jains sec v GLASENAPP in Festschrift Schubring p 74-84 -SCHRADER assumes (Philos p 51 that thesc disputes had helped to bring the Syadvada to life
4 JACOBI Z II 5, 307
5 JACOBI, Samarāicc p XIII For chronology and system of either logician scc Satis Chandra VIDYABHUSANA, History of the Mediacval School of Indian Logic C 1909.