Outlines of Jainism

Author(s): J L Jaini, F W Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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a dispute with the Buddha as to the comparative iniquity of the sins of the body and the mind.
(5) A reference in the same work (56) to the three sorts of dumus, 'hurtful acts,' namely, of body, speech, and mind, in which the Jainas believe.
(6) In the diyuttara Vikūja (nii, 7+) Abhaya, a prince of the Lichchhavis of Vaišáli, refers to the Jaina affirmation of ability to attain full knowledge and to annihilate karmas, old and new, by means of austerity.
(T) A reference in the same Vikäyu (iii, 70. 3) to the Dig-virati row and the Uposutha dar. The Dig-virati row is: "I shall go only in certain fixed directions to-day." ['posathe is keeping a fast in which the larman is supposed to be in his thought and behaviour like an ascetic.
(8) In the Maha-vugge (vi, 31) Sila, the general of the Lichchhavis, and a lay disciple of Mahāvīra, goes. against his master's prohibition, to see the Buddha, and is converted by him on being taught the akriyavūıla doctrine of Buddhism, which made him relinquish the Jaina doctrine of kriya-rūdu, inculcating a belief in soul, in the world, and in action (believed to be our own, either by our performing it, by our having it performed, or by our allowing it to be performed).
2. Indirectly also the Buddhist records attest the importance and probable high antiquity of Jainism :
(1) They mention the Jainas (Nirgranthas) as the opponents and converts of Buddha, and nerer imply, much less assert, that they are a newly founded sect.
(2) Makkhali Gosāla divides inankind into six