Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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'A SAINT LIKE THAT' AND A SAVIOUR' : 53
of the Jaina Siddhanta, while the common arya dominates in the younger strata of it. This shows that tai in the sense of a "saint like that" is already at home in the earliest layers of the Jaina Canon.
In our verse tai is connected with a saint who is taking care of not doing any harm to living beings and-as a saint like that-he is taking everything into account of not hurting any living creature while. he is walking, talking, going on almsfood, receiving cloth etc, and observing nature's call.
Even more striking the semantic interrelationship between tai and tādṛn is expressed in the archaic solemn äryä of Utt. VIII. 4:
savvam gantham kalaham ca/vippajahe tahaviham (he) bhikkhu | savvesu kama-jäesu/päsamáno na lippai tai || 31
Translation: "A monk of such qualities should abandon all bondage and contention. He, who sees [the bitter consequences] in all sorts of pleasures, a saint like that will not be stained [with the Karma]."
Charpentier notes the Var. lect. tahdvihe before bhikkhu instead. of tahaviham. Both Atmārāmji (I. 310) and Charpentier (93) prefer tahaviham. If we accept the reading tahavihe "of such qualities", we get an attributive adjective connected with bhikkhu "a monk of such. qualities", and gain the correspondent term of tal. The expression "a monk of such qualities" refers to the previous verse Utt. VIII. 3, to the qualifications of a munivaro like Kapila kevali, who is called. vigaya-moho and nana-damsaṇa-samaggo and clearly bears upon tai the last word of this stanza. This correlation speaks strongly in favour of the old equation tai tādṛn which appears to be still alive in this.
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ancient verse.
Atmārāmji understands tãi Skt. trdyi and he translates: ātmā
31 This stanza is also composed in the archaic rhythmic movement of the older arya. I am scanning:
·|-~|~ ~ - | ° / - | ~ ~ - | ~ ~ ~|--|-|
- | ~ ~ ~ | - - 1° / -~ |- - | ~ -~ |-- |- ||
32 Jacobi (33) translates: "All fetters (of the soul), and all hatred, everything of this kind, should a monk cast aside, he should not be attached to any pleasures examining them well and taking care of himself."
33 Sri Atmārāmji Maharaj the late headmonk of the Sthanakväsi Svetambara Jainas resided at Ludhiana/Panjab. Due to his unequalled memory His Holiness had the strength to lay down his