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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
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Besides such glimpses, neither the Švetāmbara nor the Digambara epigraphs give any distinct details about the nuns along with those about the monks. It seems that as in the literary evidence so also in the epigraphical references, the Jainas never gave even a chance of an appearance of the superiority of the nun-order over that of the order of monks.
Inspite of this, it should be noted that the epigraphs rarely give a case of moral degradation of a nun, and ALTEKAR's view about the absence of an order of nuns in Brāhmanism due to the corrupt non-Brāhmanical orders of nuns, goes unwarranted so far as Jaina epigraphical evidence is concerned.
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JAINA TECHNICAL TERMS:
Both the Svetāmbara and the Digambara epigraphs refer to a number of technical terms. They may be summarised as follows:
Acārāngadhara, 479 Agama, 480 Anga,481 Avasyakas; 482 Bhavya; 483 Danda,484 Daśapūrvadhara,485 Dhyāna486 (a) Arta, (b) Raudra. Ekādaśāngadhara; 487 Gärava, 488 Ghāti (karman),489 Guptis;490 Kāyotsarga, 491 Kevala jñāna;492 Mahāpratihāryas;493 Palyankāsana,494 Pañcācāra,495 Pañcaparameşthin; 496 Parīşaha,497 Pāüggamaņa;498
479. E.C., II, 254. 480. Ibid., 67. 481. Ibid., 254, 268. 482. Ibid., 258. 483. Ibid., 1, 65, 66, 67, 69, 495. 484. Ibid., 66. 485. Ibid., 254. 486. Ibid., 65. 487. Ibid., 254. 488. Ibid., 66. 489. Ibid., 67. 490. Ibid., 127, 140. 491. NAHAR, I, 808; E.C., II, 67. 492. Bhav. Inscr. 1 of Rudrasimha, Junagadh; also E.C., II, 254. 493. Ibid., 142. 494. Ibid., 127. 495. Ibid., 268. 496. Ibid., 65. 497. Ibid., 127, 140.
498. Ibid., 82. BULL. DCRI.-72
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