More Light On Yapaniya Sangha

Author(s): A N Upadhye
Publisher: A N Upadhye

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MORE LIGHT ON THE YAPANIYA SANGHA1
A JAINA SECT*
By
A. N. UPADHYE
The religious and ascetic organisation headed by Nigantha Nataputta, or Mahavira, was led eariler by Pārsva; and Mahāvīra was a Pāsavaccijja, i. e., he belonged to the line of Parsva. Still the Uttaradhyayana, XXIII, depicts a situation in which the pupils of Parsva and of Mahavira try to patch up some of the differences in their ascetic practices. It is such differences that might have created schisms and sects in the Jaina church in due course of time.
Reprinted from the Annals (B. O. R. Institute)
Vol. LV
2
POONA 1974
This paper was submitted to the 29th International Congress of Orientalists, Paris, and read by me at the Southeast Asia (Indian) Section on July 17, 1973.
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For earlier studies see: Indian Antiquary, VII, p. 34; H. LUDERS: E. I., IV. p. 338; N. PREMI: Jaina Hitaisi, XIII, pp. 250-75; A. N. UPADHYE: Journal of the University of Bombay, L. vi, pp. 224 ff.; N. PREMI: Jaina Sahitya aura Itihasa, 2nd ed., Bombay 1956, pp. 56 f., 155 f., 521 f.; P. B. DESAI: Jainism in South India, Sholapur, 1957, pp. 163-66, etc.
Nalinaksh DATTA: Early History of the Spread of Buddhism and Buddhist Schools, p. 200.
3
E. LEUMANN: Die alten Berichte von den Schismen der Jaina, I, S., XVII, pp.
91-135.
4 Dr. HOERNLE quoted in South Indian Jainism, pp. 25-27,
5 See Viseṣāvasyakabhāṣya, Gathās 2304-2548,
2 [Annals, B. O. R. I. ]