Jambu Jyoti

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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Jainism vis-à-vis Brahmanism
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Each section contains passages of only one Jaina text; Section 1 being exclusively meant for the Acāra, contains passages invariably from the Ācāra; in the same way, Section 2 covers passages exclusively from the Sūtrakrta, and likewise sections 3-4 contain passages respectively from the Uttarādhyayana (Section 3), the Daśavaikālika (Section 4-A) the and Rsibhāṣitāni (Section 4-B) as per given textual order.
(c) Units :-- The Sections 1-4 consist of “units” which are given serial numbers. The following factors constitute a unit :
1. A unit contains at least one Jaina passage which is comparable with
any Brahmanical passage in words or/and ideas.
2. A unit sometime may contain two or more than two Jaina passages
showing some sort of mutual similarity in words or/ and ideas.
3. Two or more than two Jaina passages differing from each other in
words or / and ideas are included each in separate units, provided they fulfil the condition 1 stated above—i.e. resemblance with Brahmanical passages.
4. A unit contains at least one or more than one Brahmanical passage
which somehow resembles in word or/and ideas with the Jaina passage(s) which the unit contains.
All passages running parallel to and coming after a Jaina or a Brahmanical passage are indicated by the mark : + at their beginning in order to point them out separately at a glance in a unit.
The units are not arranged according to the nature of Jaina passages, e.g. literary, philosophical, ethical, etc. A pair of cases of parallels from the classical Sanskrit literature is casually shown into square brackets, and some cases of parallels from the Buddhist sources are just referred to into brackets after the Brahmanical passages. The units in a section may contain Jaina passages from any of the chapters or sūtras of the text concerned.
(d) Criterion for Similar Passages :- Mutually resembling passages of a particular Jaina text can without any problem be included into appropriate units of a Section of that text, since the Jaina text, the units and the passages, all belong to one and the same Section. But, mutually resembling passages from two or more than two Jaina texts present