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' : 59
na so pariggaho vutto, nãyaputteņa tāiņā |
muccha pariggaho vutto iha vuttam mahesiņām || (Suttagame II, p. 961).
In this sloka tai is linked with naya-putta (=Mahāvīra-Svāmi). It is, however, doubtful if tai is to be taken here as a particular epithet of Mahavira. It is more likely that tai here also is an attribute. denoting Bhagavan Mahavira as a "Saint like that ".
Now let us turn to the concluding postulate of this chapter in Súy. II. 6, 55 (Suttāgame I, p. 174) :
Buddhassa äṇāč imaṁ samähiṁ assim su-thicca ti-vihena täi
tarium samuddam va maha-bhav'-ogham ayaṇāvam dhammam udaharejja" ||
Translation: "[He, who has entered] into this contemplation according to the instruction of the Enlightened one, standing firm in it, is a saint like that in a threefold way, and who is of the disposition to cross the ocean-like immense flood of existence, he may expound the Dharma."
We have to see this verse in connection with the verses 49 and 50 of this chapter, where those are condemned, who, being ignorant, teach the Dharma (verse 49), and those are praised, who teach the complete Dharma, being attached to samähi through the full kevala. knowledge (kevalenam punnena nanena samähijutta) and who save themselves and others, as such, who are saved (je u taranti appāņa param ca tinna) (verse 50).
Special attention is to pay to the fact that tai is connected with ti-vihena in verse 55 quoted above. This is a term, which is closely linked with the fulfilment of the five Great Vows (maha-vvaya). So we read, for instance, in Ayare II. 15. 1025 (Suttagame p. 94): paccakkhami savvaṁ pânäiväyaṁ..jävaj-jiväe ti-viham ti-vihenam manasă vayasā kāyasā45 "I will give up any kind of destroying living beings.. as long as life lasts in a threefold way by thought, word or deed."
This will remind the reader of our first reference to tai in Utt. VIII. 9, where such a cautious saint (tai), who does not destroy living beings, is called circumspect (samiya).
44 The metre is Indravajra in pada a, b, d. The measured movement of pada e is unsettled.
käyena vācāya uda
45 Cf. the parallel phrases in the Pali Canon cetasa and kayena vācāya manasã, vide PTSD.