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( 15 ) This word is explained by Bhushana Tika, as Digambara.
"FauifaT: ATI ata a far:" xfa faag:
In the Tilaka Tika Shramana is explained as a Bauddha Sannyasin. It is, however, more frequently used for a Bauddha than for a Jain monk, and we should not attach much importance to it. It may be that Dasharatha fed both the Jain and the Bauddha monks
In Shakatayana's Unadi Sutra the word Jin occurs. "इण् सिञ् जिदीकुथविभ्यो नक्" (सू. २८५ पाद ३)
This is explained by the author of the Siddhanta Kaumadi as Arhan (fsätska) which is a term used for the founder of Jainism.
It is true that Amara Kosha gives the words, Jin and Buddha, as synonyms, and that in Medini Kosha Jin means (1) Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and (2) Arhan, the founder of Jainism, but wherever the word Jin occurs it ought to be taken as a name of the founder of a religion which derives its name from it rather than for the founder of a religion which owes its name to Buddha. This should specially be the case where the Vrittikara explains the term Jin as Arhan as in the case of the Unadi Sutra above referred to. From this it would follow that the word Jin in the Unadi Sutra is used for the founder of Jainism. And when did Shakatayana. live? He is cited by Yaska in his Nirukta. Yaska lived many centuries before Panini, who lived before: Patanjali, the author
