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JAINA CONCEPTION OF THE HOLY PENTAD
namo arihantānam, namo siddhānam, namo āyariyānam, namo uvajjhāyānam, namo loe savvasāhūnam.
In a footnote to this reading25 the learned editors have given the following Prakrit verse which is usually added to the above mantra in ritual texts of a later date :
eso pañcanamukkāro savvapävappaņāsano/ mangalānam ca sabbesim padhamam havai mangalaml/
We may translate the above lines in the following words:
"Obeisance to the arhats, Obeisance to the siddhas, Obiesance to the ācāryas, Obeisance to the upādhyāyas, Obeisance to all the sādhus in the world.
This five-fold obeisance destroys all evil; it is the foremost blessing among all the blessings." Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini has offered the following translation :
"I bow before the worthy ones (arhat)-the Jinas; I bow before the Perfected beings (siddha)-those who have attained moksa; I bow before the (mendicant) leaders (ācārya) of the Jaina order; I bow before the (mendicant) preceptors (upādhyāya); I bow before all the (Jaina) mendicants (sādhu) in the world.
This five-fold salutation, which destroys all sin, is pre-eminent as the most auspicious of all auspicious things."26
This mantra occurs in the Jaina Kalpasūtra also which, however, is an extracanonical sacred book. 37
Professor Gustav Roth, who has published an interesting and valuable study of
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Panna
Pannavaņāsuttam, edited by Muni Punyavijayaji, Dalsukh Malvania and Amritlal M. Bhojak, Part I, Text, p. 3 and footnote 2. The Jaina Path of Purification, pp. 162-163. Suttāgame, vol. II, First Appendix, p. 1 (Kappasuttam); Kalpa Sutra, edited and translated by K.C. Lalwani, p. 3.
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