Lecture On Jainism

Author(s): Lala Banarasidas
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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In Madhava's Shankar-Dig-Vijaya
pendent sects. it is said that Shankar held debate not only with the Jains near Ujjain, but also with the Buddhists at Benares. So it is also recorded in Ananda Giri's Shankar-Dig-Vijaya, and in Sadananda's ShankarVijaya Sara. Madhava in his Sarva-Darshana Sangraha, enumerates Jain Darshana as one of the sixteen Darshanas or philosophies current in the Deccan in the 14th century, as also Buddhism. Sadananda of Kashmere in his Advaita-Brahma-Siddhi speaks of both the Jain and the Buddhist systems. It is worthy of notice that he cnumerates, the four sub-divisions of the Buddhists as (1) Vaibhashika, (2) Sautrantika, (3) Yogachara and (4) Madhyamika, but he does not include the Jains among them. Madhava in his Sarva-Darshana Sangrah does the same. These four sub-divisions of the Buddhists are frequently spoken of and widely known but the Jains are never included among them. In Siddhanta Shiromani, the author separately speaks of and criticises the Jain and the Buddhist view of astronomy. Varaha-Mihira, who according to Dr. Kern and others, lived in the 6th century A. D., makes very important references both to the Jains and the Buddhists in his Brihat-Samhita. He tells us that the Nagna or Jain worship Jin while the Sakya or the Buddhists worship Buddha.
Drearg að feae mænad avaıq faarai fag: (१८ श्लो० प० ६९)
Gentlemen, note here what Varaha-Mihira said in the 6th century that the objects of worship of the