Jambu Jyoti

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

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'Adda' or the Oldest Extant Dispute between....
the dhamma to each of them.
Purā-kadam : sarvair api Tirthakaraih k tam pure-kadam (Cũ 417, 6), pūrvam yad anena bhavat-tīrthakṛtā kṛtaṁ (Ț II 139 b 8 sq.).
Suneha: see Pi § 503 in fine. In Sanskrit, the use of the indicative pro imperativo is restricted to the first person (Speijer 1886: 276).
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Eg'-anta-yari: the Tīkā tradition uniformly reads meganta°. As an enjambment of the a-pada is out of question and (m)e does not fit in the b-pada, nor does Sīlânka comment on it, we may assume a scribal error analogous with the many cases in Dasav and Utt where suṇeha me occurs, esp. at the beginning of a lecture, like at Utt 1,1 = Dasav 8, 1 anupuvvim suneha me; Utt 20, 38 where sunehi me is to be read instead of Charpentier's muṇehi, or Utt 35, 1 suneha me egamaṇā (thus read m.c.). This stanza portrays the Jain monk's full responsibility for his destiny and control of his life, his original isolation and independence, which mirror the state of the soul as conceived by Jainism (Dundas 1992: 37 with parallels), but is also the old Buddhist ideal (Suttanipāta 35 sqq.).
An-ega: acc. masc. pl., as in Pāli. This form should be added in Pi § 435. Aikkhai : also at Sūy 2, 1, 30 (cf. Pāli ācikkhati, BHS āciksati). 2, 6, 2
sā 'jiviyā paṭṭhaviyā 'thirenam sabhā-gao gaṇao bhikku-majjhe | āikkhamāņo bahu-janna-m-attham na samdhayai avareṇā puvvaṁ ||
d: TVJ samdhayai
This is the way of life adopted by an inconstant man: by going among (other) monks from his gana into an assembly and teaching mass salvation he behaves differently from his past (conduct).
Ajīviyā: the use of this word by the Ajivika Gosāla can hardly be by chance. According to Śīlânka, Gosāla here accuses the Jains of hypocrisy resp. renunciation of principles: "thinking 'ordinary people do not respect a person living alone' for opportunist reasons he (Mahāvīra) has surrounded himself with many followers". A saying in Ț underpins this reproach24.