Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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38] JAINAS IN INDIAN LITERATURE
“Now, then, salutation to kingship whose fruits are dharma and artha. That from which both prosperity and final beatitude are obtained is called dharma. Adharma, however, is that which bears results contrary to this". Liberality and ascetic exercises are recommended in the first chapter. Somadeva says (p. 3 f.): e frulla fata प्रयच्छतस्तपस्यतो वा भवन्त्यवश्यं महीयांसः परे लोकाः । कालेन संचीयमानः परमाणुरपि जायतें मेरुः । धर्मश्रुतधनानां. लवोऽपि प्रतिदिनं संगृह्यमाणो भवति समुद्रादादप्यधिकः । "ICIf he bestows gifts or devotes himself to austerities only a little every day according to rule, he will surely obtain the very highest other worlds. Even atoms when accumulated grow to be Mount Meru in time. Even if only a small particle of religious merit, of learning, or of wealth, be collected every day, it grows greater even than the ocean." And the whole work is not like Kautiliya-Arthasāstra a practical hand-book of politics and economics, but rather a book of good counsels for kings. Even when in the Nīti vākyāmrta the same subjects are treated as in the Kauţiliya, we find that Soma deva gives more general rules of conduct where Kautily a insists on the details of political practice. What is important for Kautilya is of more or less secondary importance for Somà deva. In the chapter on war, for instance, we find nothing about all those technical details on military matters that are found in the Kautiliya, but only various good counsels how to wage war. Following the list of Prakrtis exactly as given by Kautilya (V,6, 96, p. 257 ): YARATTI glimlacus
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