Jain Journal 1984 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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JULY, 1984
hypothesi--became obsoletely almost as soon as certain of these schools had brought an alternative mode of emergence into operation through their own vicissitudes. In these 'unrelated schools' break-downs and disintegrations, the earliest of the 'related' schools took their rise18 and under the conditions of our day.
The possibility of ‘unrelated' schools of the Jaina monks ever emerging again seems now to be definitely excluded by the accomplished fact of the all-wide expansion of Jaina Samgha on the social plane of India and this suggests what may have been the reason why the mode of emergence of the ‘unrelated schools of the Jainas became obsolete in certain periods of the past.
Apparently it is in the nature of the Jaina schools to exert upon the community beyond their borders certain social influences which may be likened metaphorically to the physical pushes and pulls which, in scientific terminology, are called radiation and attraction. The forces of social radiation and attractions of the earliest representatives of Jaina schools affected the society consciously or unconsciously, in greater measure of less. But later on they could not make it possible for other missionary movements of the same kind any longer to be generated independently at fresh centres in the manner in which these earliest forces and themselves been generated originally. This would explain why all the later missionary movements of the Jaina monks that occurred were generated in a new way by derivation.19 It would explain why the mode of emergence of the 'unrelated' group of Jaina schools became obsolete and the mode of the related group became the rule. 20
When a Jaina school begins to lose its creative power, the people (laities) below its surface and beyond its borders, whom it is all the time irradiating with its influence and attracting into its orbit, begin to resist assimilation, with the result that the community of monks, which, in its age of growth, was a social unity with an ever expanding fringe, becomes divided against itself by the sharp lines of division between a dominant
19 Dravida Samgha, Yapaniya Samgha, Gauda Samgha, etc. became obsolete. 18 e.g. the Sakhas of Mula Samgha, Balatkara Gana and Kastha Samgha took
their rise in the breakdowns and disintegrations of the unrelated schools. 19 e.g. the missionary movements of Terapanthi's of the Svetambara and Tera
panthin of the Digambaras, Kanjisvami sect, etc., have been generated in a
new way by derivation. 20 Whatever new Jaina schools are found to-day were related to some earlier schools
e.g. Tapa Gaccha, Sthanakavasi, Terapanthi, etc.