Notes on Modern Jainism

Author(s): Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Oxford

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MODERN JAINISM.
power that moves bodies and the power that keeps them stationary; the comparison being made with regard to substance, space, time, and emotion.
5. Bhagavatiji (240190 oy ) or Vivihāpannanti Cala 81491m). This is the great Sutra and is held in the highest honour. It contains the questions which Gautama asked Mahāvira and the latter's answers. It deals chiefly with religious philosophy.
6. Jñātādharma Kathānga (119142434191) contains moral stories about Faith, Knowledge and Soul; e. g. Two men were each given a peahen's egg. One man, being faithless, was for ever shaking his egg whilst it was hatching, to see how it was progressing, and so destroyed the chicken, but the believing man, who quietly left his egg alone till the appointed time, was rewarded with a beautiful peacock.
7. Upāsaka Das'ārga ( 641345 Eliial ) contains the biographies of ten eminent laymen and the eleven steps a layman should take to attain Liberation ( Moksa ).
8. Antagada Das'āngu (24cnols Ellil). The lives of ten Preceptors ( A' cārya [ 24124141, who possessed the greatest powers of endurance, were freed from the eight Karma and attained Moksa in the same life, together with the lives of some other Kevali.
9. Anuttarovavāi Das'ānga (ayal 7219918 ERLİSL). The lives of ten Preceptors who attained to Anuttaravimāna (2497729H ), i. e. one stage short of Moksa, in the same life.
10. Pras'na Vyākarana ( yedd 5413799) deals chiefly with the path of Karma and its destruction.