Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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JAINA WORKS ON POLITICS
[ 43 द्धासु च स्त्रीषु ब्रह्मचर्यमिति सर्वेषां समानो धर्मः । आदित्यालोक इव धर्मः सर्वेषां साधारणः खलु।
“Kindness, truthfulness, abstaining from the property of others, controlling one's desires, avoiding marriage against the order of castes), and chastity with regard to forbidden women: such is the moral law common to all men. Like the sun, indeed, is the moral law common to all men”.
Quite Brahmanical again is the chapter on. the Purohita (p. 43 ff.), where we read, for instance (p.44): 1 R Afa-gelfedi harfgaste spaana og faranञ्छितेषु विसूरयेद् दुःखयेद् दुर्विनयेद् वा।
"For the minister and the Purohita are the king's parents (as it were). Therefore he should not disappoint them in any of their wishes or cause them pain or behave badly against them”. The rules for the daily life of the king, as given in the 25th, chapter, are also essentially Brahmanical, as far as they are not merely rules of diet and hygienics. Thus we read in the Nītivākyāmsta (p. 99): A ti tefeullenca qarai Pitt i Compare Kauţiliya p. 38. Nacht te Ti a szerepelticileTÄ TEIT
I may add a few other passages, not mentioned by Professor Jolly in his paper, where we find Somade va quoting more or less literally from Kautilya:
Nītiv. p. 18: qf912hT TH o ai stii TBİRTHAITI यदाह वैवस्वतो मनुः । उञ्छषड्भागप्रदानेन वनस्था अपि तपखिनो राजानं संभाaffari eta TC ITT Tera itaruditat i Compare Kaut. p. 23: तस्मादुञ्छषड्भागमारण्यका अपि निर्वपन्ति तस्यैतद्भागधेयं योऽस्मान् गोपायतीति। Compare also Manusmrti 8, 304; 11, 23. ,