Jambu Jyoti

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

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ta(y)-ūvame samaṇe Nāya-putte icc eva me hoi mai viyakkā ||
a: VJ uday',-c: V: tayovame; J: tauvame;-d: V: viyakko
The śramana Nayaputta acts just as a profit-oriented merchant procures goods for his income (and) thereby a karmic bond/dependence (from others). This is my view and opinion.
b# 21 d
Jambū-jyoti
Right from the start Gosāla's attack was directed against Mahāvīra's alleged inconsequence: the fact that he first lived alone and then decided to go into the public eye surrounded by monks and to proclaim his teaching (vss. 1-2).
Jacobi's rendering of the first line runs 'As a merchant desirous of gain (shows) his wares and attracts a crowd to do business (...)', which involves the assumption of a hard zeugma or a complementary verb to pannaṁ as provided by the commentaries". Prakaroti means 'vollbringen, ausführen, bewirken, veranstalten, machen, anfertigen; s.aneignen, nehmen (dārān ein Weib)' (pwb) as far as concerns the meanings possible here. The doctrine, which is not expressed clearly, represents Mahāvīra's true doctrine; the asyndetically connected words pannaṁ and sangam share the notion of binding and form a unity of contrasts-the material and the spiritual-which their chiastic position underlines.
Panṇam glossed by Silâñka inter alia as camphor, aloe, musk and amber61
Ūday'-atthi: cf. Pā. uday'-atthika (AnguttaraN II 199, 20) where the Jain Śākya Vappa complains to the Buddha that he is like a merchant making every effort to sell his goods yet does not realize any profit. As a disciple Mahāvīra's he would believe himself seyyathāpi (...) puriso uday'-atthiko assa paniyaṁ poseyya so udayam c'eva na labheyya. The commercial simile may be typical of the Jains and testifies to the great age of their professional activity (cf. also vs. 21).
Ayassa heum: cf. bahu-janna-m-attham in vs. 2.
Pagarei sangam: "samja samge" saṁjanaṁ saktir vā saṁgaḥ (Cū 425, 7; pagarei is not glossed), mahā-jana-sangam vidhatte (T II 146a 12). See further infra at vs. 21.