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...
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too briefly and thus may provoke dubiosities, and on the other hand, by being washed away from his own persuasion into heresy by a flux of arguments an adversary might come up with.
2, 6, 16
mehāvino sikkhiya buddhimantā suttehi atthehi ya nicchaya-nnā | pucchińsu mā ne an-agāra anne ii sankamano na uvei tattha ||
b:J: nicchaya-nnū;-c:J: aņagāra ege
In the uneasy idea "some recluse or other (of those who are) wise; have finished their training; obtained insight and are well acquainted with your scriptures and their meaning might ask me questions" he does not go there.
d = 18 d
Sikkhiya : śikṣitā an-egāņi vyākarana-Sāṁkhya-Višesika-BauddhâjīvikaNyāyâdīņi śāstrāņi (Cū 423, 9), śikṣām grāhitāḥ śikṣitāḥ (T II 145a 1). The final syllable of sikkhiya, handed down as short in all editions, is metrically anceps and therefore the lectio difficilior here. On this basis the form would have to be taken in absolute sense though as such remarkable in the present context; cf. thavara in 14b, where according to the rules thavarā could be expected without prejudice to the metre.
Suttehi etc. : "sūtre” sūtra-visaye viniscaya-jñāh tathā artha visaye ca niscaya-jñā yathâvasthita-sūtrârtha-vedina ity arthah (T II 145a 1f.). For the loc. -hi- stated by Pi § 363 to occur only in Apabhramśa-see Lüders 1952 : $ 220 (cf. note on vs. 22). Jacobi renders as '(...) men, who are well versed in the sacred texts and their meaning'. Thus the monks of other denominations53 apparently knew the Jain sūtras so well, that Mahāvīra's disciples did not like to enter into a discussion with them (and should not do so, Sūy 1, 1, 4, 2; Āyār 2, 3, 2, 17; Uvās 58 < Schubring, $ 163)54.
Passages like these seem to corroborate Schubring's thesis regarding the grounds for the disappearance of the Puvvas55. In the Pāli canon, however, not only the heretical doctrines are somehow discernible (as against the Suyagada—the remainder of the Puvvas), but even the names of