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Pp. 219-20. Krşņa, Rāma and the Tirthankaras, represent the resurgence of a world view totally different from that of the Aryans. Parśva can be visualized in a historical setting.
Pp. 221-224. Mahāvīra, his life described. The canonical texts of the Buddhists, dating from the first centuries B.C. mention the Jaina frequently under their old name of Nirgrantha, 'without knot, tie, or string, i.e. 'the unfettered ones'; and referto them as a rival sect, but nowhere as one newly founded. Mahāvīra not a founder of a new ascetic community but the reformer of an old one. Aristanemi (or Neminātha) cousin of Krsna.
Pp. 224-n. 44. The cycle of time explained.
Pp. 225-26. With Aristanemi, Jaina tradition breaks beyond the bounds of recorded history into the reaches of the mythological past. And yet it does not follow that the historian would be justified in saying that some teacher of the Jaina faith-perhaps Aristanemi-did not precede Pārsvanātha. The long series of these mythological saviors, points to the belief that the Jaina religion is eternal.
P. 227. A philosophy of the profoundest pessimism. The round of rebirths in the world is endless ; as a result of meritorious, or evil conduct, one is reborn a god or being of hell or an animal. The release is possible only by heroic effort-a long, really dreadful ordeal of austerities and progressive self-abnegation.
Pp. 227-234. According to Jaina cosmology, the universe is a living organism, made animate throughout by life--monads which circulate through its limbs and spheres ; and this organism will never die. Life-monans and their possesions described. The six colors (leśyās) described. 'Humanity' (the phenomenon of the human being, the ideal of its perfection, and the ideal of the perfected human society) discussed.
Pp. 234-40. The mark of the personality.
P. 241. The Cosmic Man: The philosophy of Jainism as monistic ; in its analysis of the psychology and destiny of man, Jainism is dualistic ;
Pp. 248-252. The Jaina doctrine of Bondage,
Pp. 262-268. The Doctrine of Gosāla-Maskarin Gosäla's systematization of the universe was akin to the tradition of the Jainas ; the two doctrines were related being derived from some main tradition of pre-Aryan natural science and psychology; the followers of Gosāla were Ajivaka ; his doctrine described.
Pp. 268-279. Man against Nature : Jainism agrees with Gosāla as to the masklike character of the persanality ; but Jainism disagrees with Gosäla's fatalistic
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