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The Sapta-Bhanginayajnas are the Jains. The Sapta-Bhanginaya is an object of frequent attack by the Brahmans. If they find anything in Jainism which they think they should attack, it is this SaptaBhanginaya. It is this Sapta-Bhanginaya which is criticised by Badarayana in Sutra 33.
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It is this Sapta-Bhanginaya upon which Shankar bases his victory over the Jains near Ujjain as it recorded by Madhava in his Shankar-Dig-Vijaya. It is this Sapta-Bhanginaya which is criticised in Svarajya Siddhi, as a Pandit has recently told me. Now I ask you, gentlemen, if the Jains and the Buddhists were spoken of as different sects, as early as the time when the Mahabharata and the Vedanta Sutras were composed,, how could the Jains be regarded as an offshoot of the Buddhists?
As for other references to Jainism in Brahmanical writings I may refer you to Mahabharata, Adi Parva, Adhyaya 3, Shlokas 26-27, where the Shesha Naga steals away the Kundala of Utanka in the disguise. of a Nagna Kshapanaka.
सोऽपश्य दथ पथिनग्नं चपणकम् २६ एतस्मिन्वन्तरेस चपणक श्त्वरमाण उपसृत्यते कुण्डले गृहीत्वा प्राद्रवत् २६.
Nilakantha explains Kshapanaka as Pakhanda Bhikshuka. A Nagna Pakhanda Bhikshuka must mean a Digambara Jain monk. It is a pity that the Brahmans introduce Jain monks on occasions when some bad duty is to be performed. For instance, see. also Mudra-Rakshasa-Nataka, where a Jain monk has
