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P. 112. As both the Pancarātras and the Bhagavatas believed deeply in the doctrine of ahiṁsā (non-killing), their ideas became the subject matter of many of the Purāṇic works, which were meant for saving the Vedic religion specially from the onslaught of Buddhism, Jainism and other non-Vedic and anti-Vedic religious systems. With the rise and spread of Buddhism, Jainism and other non-Vedic and anti-Vedic religious faiths, the protagonists of the Vedic way of life must have been actively busy in devising ways and means for creating a favourable field for the Vedas in popular mind. As a matter of fact, during the few centuries preceding and following the beginning of the Christian era, the Smarta adherents compiled a number of works entitled 'Vişnudharma', 'Sivadharma', Sauradharma, and so on, prescribing religious and other duties to the respective sectaries.
P. 149. Vişnudharma in Chap. 105, gives a dismal picture of Kali age-While other wicked Śūdras will turn Śākyas, Srāvakas, Nirgranthas and Siddhaputras in the Kali age'.
Pp. 292-93. In his smộti-candrikā, I, Pp. 18-23. Devanabhatta quotes from the earliest Adi-purāņa fifteen verses on the selection of a habitable tract of land. Dharma-deśa and adharma-deśa--the latter was to be shunned. A person born in Āryāvarta was not allowed to go beyond the rivers Narmadā (in the south), Sindhu (in the north and west) and Karatoya (in the east). The people of Kanchi, Kosala, Saurastra and Devarastra, of the two countries known by the name Kaccha, and of Sauvira and Konkana were very much condemned; not to reside permanently in those tracts of land which were watered by the 'five rivers and were known by the names Āratta. People who went beyond the Narmadā, Sindhu and Kāśi (river Kośi) and to the western side of Padmā and lived there for a period longer than that required for visiting the holy places, were sure to visit the hells after death. No marriage or funeral ceremony, nor any sacrifice was to be performed in Anga, Vanga, Kalinga, Vindhya and Malavaka, in the countries lying on the south of the Narmadā, on the north of the Sindhu, and in Paundra, Saurastra, Caidya, Kerala and Magadha. If a twice-born man chanced to go, out of his own accord and not for visiting holy places to Saurastra, Sindhu, Sauvira, Avantya, Dakșinăpatha, Kalinga or other bordering countries, he was ex-communicated and was to be purified by sacraments.
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Satya Ranjan BANERJEE-A Note on the remarks of Piscel on the Illustrative Gathas of Hemachandra's Dešinamamälā. (Pr. & Tr. A.I.O.C., 18th Sess, 1955. Annamalainagar, 1958)
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