Lecture On Jainism

Author(s): Lala Banarasidas
Publisher: Anuvrat Samiti

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( 17 ) a native of Vaisali, a l'aideha or & prince of Videha, a Kashyapa, or one of that Gotra. But he is frequently called Nattaputta, i. e., Prakrit Natta=Sanskrit Gnatrika and Prakrita Putta Sanskrit Putra. The Gnatrikas are also mentioned as Nadikas or Natikas in Buddhist works. The Jain Nirgranthas or Prakrita Niganchas üre also frequently met with in Buddhist works, und ihey are there mentioned as the followers of Nigantha Nattaputta, our Mahavira. Some very important points of our creed are alse rcferred to in Budhist Korks, for instance, the Dig Vrile, the disuse of cold water by he monks, the doctrine of Action, and the doctrine of Kriyavada, &c. These are put into the mouth of Natta Putta, our Mahavira, or Nirgranthas, cur Jain Gurus. Even the word Savaka or Shravka meaning a lay Jain occurs in sume passages.
This wonderful discovery is due to Bühler and Jacobi. I have myself read Mahavagga and Mahalarinibhana Sutlil in the Sacred Books of the Fast. I have also read translations of passages in which our Gnatriputra or thc Nirgranthas, or their creed, or the word Shravaka occurs. They are cited by Jacobi in Vol. XLV. of the Sacred Books of the Last. The Buckhist works from which the passages have been cited are, besides Maharagya and Mahaparinibhana Sutta, Anugultara Nikaya, Samanaphala Sutta of the Dighnikaya, Sumangala Vilasani, a commentary by Buddhagosha on Brahmagala Sutta of the Digh Nikaya and Magghim Nikayn. The Oriental also mentions Lalita-Vastra. All these works were composed before the