Kalpasutra

Author(s): J Stevenson
Publisher: Oriental Translation Fund London

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INTRODUCTION
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Immediately he got up, and fed them with the remains of the rice and milk, and, leaving home, went to the Rishis*, to inquire how his father and mother could be liberated from their present state. They, after informing him that the reason of their having been born in these bestial forms, was their having devoted themselves to pleasure at improper seasons, commanded him, in order to obtain their liberation, to eat nothing procured by labour on that fifth day of the month. He followed their directions, and the holiday afterwards became celebrated among the people as the Rishi Panchainí.
I am now to mention the author of the Kalpa Sútra. He was Sri Bhadra Bahu Svámi, an accomplished scholar, who was well acquainted with the fourteen branches of his subjectt, and a distinguished teacher. Taking for his guide the works here named—the Daśaśrutaskandha, Ashtamadhyayana, and the discourse called Pratyikkhyána, in which he found nine branches-he composed the Kalpa Sútra. He wrote the first
* This is the name given to the images of the Bndulist Sages at Ellora, Karli, &c., not by Jains only, but br Hindus and Brahmans. It was to Jain Sages, then, that this Brahman went, and was hy them tanght to change the most imperative feast of his religion into a fast.
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