Jinamanjari 1996 09 No 14

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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In one of the oldest Jain scriptures, Isibhāsiyāim, a parallel pada was traced by H. Nakamura as the sayings of the first disciple of Gautama Buddha.
evam buddhāna sāsanam (Isibhāsiyaim 38.4) etaṁ buddhāna sasanam (Dhammapada 183; Milindapnha p. 394)
1.2 With the padas illustrated above, one can compare the famous prose passage of the Ayārangasutta II.15. In this text Mahvīra expressed his vow to abstain from all sinful acts, after he has plucked out his hair in five handfuls and paid obeisance to all Liberated Souls (siddhas):
savvam me akaraṇijjam pāvakammam ti katsu sāmaiyaṁ curittam padivajjai
I should not commit all sinful acts, and [I] adopt the sāmayika cāritra.
Sāmayika is defined as an equanimity of mind and right conduct, and the concentration on spiritual matters for fortyeighty minutes, in accordance with mahavvayas. Its importance lies in the fact that it helps restraining the karmic influx and exhausting past karmic material. It is worth noting that sāmayika căritra in the pre-Mahāvīra lore, meant the fourfold restraint caujama of Parsva, according to the Viyāhapannatti. This suits well with the fact that Mahāvīra's parents were followers of Parsva, as described in Āyārangasutta II.15.
1.3 What is the correlation of the Buddhist term, kusala, and the Jaina term, sāmayika cūritra? Gautama Buddha explains to his last disciple, Subhadda, about his motive to renounce the world:
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