Mahavira Jain Vidyalay Suvarna Mahotsav Granth Part 1

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

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JAINA PHRASEOLOGY IN THE BHAGAVADGITA : 119
once in the Acārānga-Sūtra, as shown by me in the magazine Jaina of Bhavnagar. The explanation for the parallelism is obvious. The consolidation of the Acāränga and other Sūtras was done by learned Jaina monks who were originally Brahmins, well-versed in the Upanişads and the Brahma-Sūtras. The date for the Ācārānga-Sūtra is 2nd or 3rd century before Christ, although it was collated in its present form in the 5th century A.D.
The Gitā uses the phrase TS in verse eleven of the second Discourse. This very phrase with a parallel meaning is read in the Acaranga-Sūtra as pointed out by me in the Jaina magazine of Bhavnagar some time back. The use occurs in the Gita in verse eleven of the second Discourse where Sri Krsna rebukes Arjuna for giving expression to thoughts which were apparently prudent but which missed the deeper sense of wisdom. FETETT HIT etc. The reader should note the use of the plural in प्रज्ञावाद.)
The concept of 7 (Wheel) is very common to Jainism and Buddhism, the Asoka Cakra having been adopted by us as our national emblem. I read a reference to the same idea, although, I am afraid, its great significance has not been adequately brought out by critics The word . (Wheel) occurs in verse 16 of the third Discourse. The verse reads as एवं प्रवर्तितं चक्रम् etc. I may add that the word प्रवर्तित is eminently Jaina and Buddhistic.
Jaina thinkers refer to eight kinds of Karma: ज्ञानावरणीय, दर्शनावरणीय, Ateith, TTTET, FIH, Tycy, etc. which cloud or obscure the soul's access to right knowledge (सम्यक् ज्ञान), right faith (सम्यक् दर्शन), right conduct (सम्यक चारित्र). The terms आवरण and मोहन occur more than once in the Gitā as applied to knowledge and conduct. I have not come across the use of the word ta meaning faith or &T, though there are several references to 961 (Faith) in the text of the Gītă. The relevant verses are 38, 39, 40 of the third Discourse. Even the illustrations are the same as in Jaina philosophical literature. Śri Krsna says that true knowledge is wrapped up by Ignorance just as fiame is enveloped by smoke, as mirror is wrapped up by dirt, as embryo is wrapped up in aninion. The verses start as धूमेनावियते etc., आवृतं ज्ञानमेतेन etc., एतैर्विमोहयत्येष ज्ञानमावृत्य etc.
The word मोहन, which is the same as the Jaina use of मोहनीय, is found in verse 8 of the fourteenth Discourse, and verse 39 of the eighteenth Discourse, wherein Śrī Krsna observes that at deludes (HER) all beings (XIV, 8) and that happiness deludes the self in the begin