Lecture On Jainism

Author(s): Lala Banarasidas
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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( 15 ) This word is explainaal by Bhushani Tikut its Digambara.
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In the Tilaka Tika Shramana is explained as a Bauddha Sannyasin. It is, however, more frequently used for a Buddha than for a Jain monk, and we should liot attach much importance to it. It may be that Dashiratha fed both the Jain and the Bauclula monks
In Shakatayana's l'nadi Sutra iho Wiiral Jin l.curs. "इण् सिञ् जिदीकुष्पविभ्यो नक्” (स. २८८ पाट ३)
This is explained by the hur of the Siddhanta Katmadi its Arhan (faisa) which is a term used for the founder of Jainism.
It is true that Amaril Krisha gives the words, Jin and Buildha, as synonyms, and that in Viccini Kosha Jin means (1) Buddha, the founder of Builhism, and (2) Arhan, the founder of Jainism, but wherever the word jin occurs it ought to be taken as i. nanie of the founder of a religion which derives its name from it rather than for the founder of a religion which owes its name to Buddha. Tliis should specially be the case where the l'rittikara explains the terin Jin as Arhan as in the cásc of the linadi Sutra above referred to. From this it would follow that the word Jin in the U'nadi Sutra is used for the founder of Jainism. And when did Shakatayana live? He is cited by Yaska in his Nirukta. Yaska lived many centuries before Panini, who lived hefore Patanjali, the author