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English translation by George Baumann
3 31. .. whether the soul is only a function of the body... 4 35... whether there are five elements (panca bhūyā)... 5 39... whether at rebirth one remains within one's own species ... 6 43. .. whether one is bound (to the world, and liberated (out of it)... 7 47... whether there are gods ... 8 51. .. whether there is a hell... 9 55. .. whether the contrast between Good and Bad really exists ... 10 59... whether there is life after death ... 11 63. .. whether there is a nirvāṇa ...
The advice (which resulted in the conversion of the addressees), announced each time by Mahāvīra with the words “Its meaning is the following", is lacking in the text. Like the schism-stories these originally were not textually fixed. Even the Cūrņi itself makes only a weak attempt to fill the omission with the first Ganadhara. However, Jinabhadra enters exactly here with his masterly handling of dogmatic matters and writes the addition in more than 400 stanzas, to which, also, rich discourses are added within his commentary. Then Haribhadra takes an extract from these expositions that fill Vis.II, together with its commentary, into his Avaśyaka-tīkā. Again from Haribhadra's discourse a shortened edition has been made later in a separate, small writing carrying the title Kimcid-gañadharavāda that retains only the explanation of Av.-niry. VI 6 and, then, what follows, except the explanatory parts and most of the "Veda-passages”."
Here we turn to the "Veda-passages”, i.e. more exactly to the Vedic and philosophical ci-tations that Jinabhadra announces in the described context and interprets or rejects in the Jaina sense. Several of these are dealt with only in his commentary and since that is lost they can only be extracted from the users of it (Haribhadra, Śīlānka, Hemacandra). The users, themselves, have contributed a citation here and there. Therefore, we emphasize with italics the citations found in the Bhāsya-text (as only these are proved to have already been taken into account by Jinabhadra) and note for the remainder, to which, or to how many of the commentators they are known. Of course, no source-statement can be found. In the meantime, the available resources of Vedic philology (particularly Jacob's UpanişadConcordanz, Bombay Sanskrit Series No. XXXIX) suffice to identify most quotations. One can assume that among the citations the most important statements on which the Brahmins of Jinabhadra's time relied during controversies or polemic can be found. Precisely, a large number of the contradicting passages of Brahmanic philosophy of life has been collected in order to especially substantiate the doubt of knowledge of each individual Gañadhara. In
97*-14
The Kimcid-ganadharavāda has an extent of about 250 grantha-s; it is contained in the collective manuscript P XVI 291 and stretches here from fol. 20's to 2310 :P XVI 291 1 B 763
PXVI 291 | B 763 20*6-14 = 96 12-13 16. 21017-22°3 = 100°11-15
223-9
101°2-2 03-10 = '5-11
9-12 =
15-17 10-12 = 989-1
12-17 =
1-6 12-21'6 = 13-17
17-19 =
12-14
14-102" 7-11
1-23 102°16-5 2395-18
6-103 13 - 10
'3-100 10. 18-9 = 103 10 f.
2-5
8-11 11 12-16
b 12-16
7-10 A text that similarly results only from the shortening of a work by Haribhadra is the Daśavaikālikalaghuvștti (cp. ZDMG. VLI 583-585).
21°6.
99*26
11-13
b
100" 97
126
2-5
101
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