Doctrine of Jainas

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

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS
words meant the same, the Yatis are the spiritual successors of those monks who had not participated in the reform. The point where this process starts is found with the Tapā-Gaccha. Of this Tapā-G, Yasovijaya Ganın? of Gujarat was a member. After having been trained in Jain learning at home his Guru Nayavijaya of Benares made him become a master of logics who as such proved extremely productive He died in s. 1745. Without occupying a leading position in the Ordera he carried out his reforms on the initiative of Vijayasimha whom the Vijayaśākhã calls their first Sūrı, although Vijayadeva who had appointed him Sūri in s. 1682 outlived him, who died in s. 1709, by four years 3 In the way he opposed both the Digambaras and the Dhundhiyas4 so he was successful first in his own Gaccha. He who followed him came to be called a samveg? dressed in saffron, whereas he who refused him continued to dress in white, and that is why to-day we hear him being called not only a yatı but a gorge as well This differentiation obviously spread from the Tapās over to the Kharataras, for in our days here, too, we come across the white Yatis who even have a hierarchy of their own. So, then, in concluding our historical sketch we observe among the Svetāmbaras the same capacity to which in remote antiquity they owe their origin: to cling faithfully to the values of tradition even though reformed.
1 Satis Chandra VIDYABHUSANA JASB 6 (1911), 463-69, MD DESAI, Shrimad Yahovijayajı (a Life of a great Jain Scholar) Bo (atter 1910), SAUBHAGYAVIJAYA in the ed of Y's Nayopadeśa, forewords to editions of other writings of Y
2 Then his name would be Vijayayasas -3 HOERNLE IA 19, 234
4. For his polemics against the former sce & 195, for those directed against the Dig and the latter comp. ao his so-called Virastutirūp hundinu stavan and his letter to Să Devrā), both in PK 3, 569-710