Facets of Jaina Religiousness in Comparative Light

Author(s): L M Joshi
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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THEMES OF SOTERIOLOGICAL REFLECTION
varṇayanti tathaägataḥ),112 Karunā and ahimsa are interchangeable terms. The Buddha has taught that the Bodhisattva's entire religious training is founded on the great compassion (mahākaruṇāmālāḥ sarva bodhisattva sikşa),11
Dharma is acknowledged as the source of happiness here and hereafter. who properly observes righteousness lives happily in this world and in the next.
dhammacāri sukham seti asmim loke paramhi ca.111
Elsewhere the gift of Dharma is declared to be the excellent among all gifts (sabba dānam dhamma dānam jināti).15
We may conclude this discussion of dharmanupreksā in particular and of anuprekgas in general with two quotations, one from a Buddhist text:
dhammārāmo dhammarato
dhammam anuvicintayam dhammam anussaram bhikkhu saddhamma na parihayati/118
and another from a Jaina text :
bārasa aṇuvekkhão bhaniya hu jiņāgamāṇusāreņa
io padhai sumai bhāvai so pāvai sasayam sokkham/[117
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112. Catuḥaŝataka, verse 298 (XII. 23).
113. Šikṣāsamuccaya, p. 81 quotation from the Ratnakutashtra.
114. Dhammapada, verse 189.
115. Ibid., verse 354.
116. Ibid., verse 364.
117. Karttikeyanuprekṣa, verse 490.