Jainism vis a vis Brahmanism

Author(s): Bansidhar Bhatt
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Bansidhar Bhatt
Jambu-jyoti
Resemblances, ideological or verbal, from the early Brahmanical texts would suggest some kind of mutual communications between the contemporary orthodoxy and some intelligent persons, probably the élite, the nobles, and others. But it is a fact that the passages show some similarities, the Sanskrit passages sometime do belong genuinely to the early strata of the Brahmanical texts, or they are at least earlier than the corresponding Prakrit passages from the Jaina texts. The Brahmanical passages of the type can hardly be ruled out as merely later ones, e.g.
Section 1 (41) -
... 31911 gift faglife (v. 1.: Tinagi. Ācāra I. 180.
cp...3i 17: ufagi.... BdĀUp. 4. 4. 10 = ŚpBr 14. 7. 2. 13 Section 2 (11) :-- = Visam 40 = IsaUp. 9, 12. Sūtraksta I. 11.33.
cp..... ' fc Fort 5... Isa. Up. 1
(25) Earlier Studies :— With an incentive of reëvaluating the early Jaina texts from this particular angle, we studied some parallels and published the material precisely in 1989 (Bhatt 1989), and with some details in 1995 in Gujarāti (Bhatt 1995). Moreover, we presented an analytical study of early Jaina texts for the origin and development of the 12 anuvekkhas and traced parallels also from the Brahmanical texts (Bhatt 1994). But in this paper we present only the parallels in a simple catalogue form and put the entire material before the scholars for proper examination, and we request them to refer to our above-stated studies for a detailed treatment of the passages in question.
(25) Parallels not Discussed :-- It is true, issues arising out of the parallelism invariably demand analytical study of the parallel passages and examination of important views held by some scholars about the texts or passages concerned. Such a critical study is indispensable when the views are directly concerned with problems whether our passages traced as parallels from the texts--especially from the Brahmanical texts--show relatively an earlier character or not. This line of inquiry is intentionally not pursued here obviously for more than one reason.
First, the expected study which by itself has the character of a monograph, could not be linked even in its summary form with