Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

Author(s): Mahavir Jain Vidyalaya Mumbai
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Vidyalay

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specific weight, not included in a catalogue of terms and epithets. Let me quote some examples from the Uttarajjhayaņasutta27 which is the first in the Mülasutta section of the śvet. Jaina Canon. Utt. VIII. 9 reads as follows:
päne ya näivāejjā/se samiyaż8 tti vuccaī tā7 | tao se pāvayam kammam/nijjāi udagam va thalão ||29
Translation: "He, who does not destroy living beings, a saint like that (täi) is called circumspect (samiya) 30, thereupon the evil karma is going away from him as water from the tableland.”
The meaning given for tāi here would well suit the context. The semantic interrelationship between the two tai and tādȚn is evident in our verse. The occurrence of tāī in the context of this verse is of special importance as this sacred term occurs in a stanza, which is composed in the rare metre of the older rhythmic movement of the āryā. This older form of the āryā is characteristic of the older layers
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Editions at hand : Uttaradhyayanasūtram, Saṁskṛtacchāyāpadarthânvaya-mülārthopetam, ätmajñānaprakāśikā-Hindi-bhāsātikásahitan ca. anuvadaka Jainamuni Sri Sri Sri 1008 upadhyaya Śrī Ātmārāmji Mahārāj, prakasaka Jaina Šāstra mālā kāryālaya, Lāhaur, Mahāvīrābda 2465 = Isavi sam 1939, Vol. I, Vol. II published Lāhaur 1941, Vol. III Lāhaur 1942, (abbr. : Ātmārāmji). When I paid a visit to His Holiness at Ludhiana/Panjab in July 1954 he graciously presented this monumental work to me. Jarl Charpentier, The Uttaradhyayanasūtra edited, Upsala 1922.
Suttāgame Vol. II p. 977 beginning of Uttarajjhayaņasuttam 28 This is how Ātmāramji reads. Charpentier (94) and Suttăgame
II 987 read samii tti. This term designates a holy man who is concerned with the five samii : iriya-bhāsesanādāne uccare samii iya Utt. XXIV.2, cf. W. Schubring, Die Lehre der Jainas, Berlin und
Leipzig 1935, § 173. 29 The way how Ātmārāmji had this stanza printed shows that he recognized where the caesura falls. I am scanning :
--1- --1-1- 1--10- |--!
"-1°- 1--1-1-1-"" -"1°-1-11 This is exactly the older form of the āryā metre which was discovered by H. Jacobi, ZDMG 38, p. 555 ff., it was again discussed by L. Alsdorf in his article on Itthiparinna, Indo-Iranian Journal
Vol. II, 1958, Nr. 4, p. 252-53. 30 By translating "circumspect" I follow Jacobi's suggestion. Vide
H. Jacobi, Gaina Sūtras translated from Prakrit, Part II : The Uttarādhyayana Sūtra, The Sūtrakritānga Sūtra, Oxford 1895 in The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XLV, p. 33.