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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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of the inner struggle of the ascetic Siddhattha with Māra', and no less by that of Buddha's disciples?. An earlier forin of the conception of self-conquest, bereft of the later Buddhist imagery of a heroic fight with the lower nature of man is to be found in the teaching of the Munakas, and a Jaina parallel of it is embodied in a dialogue of the Uttaradhyayana Sūtra*. The truth of the leaching of the Buddhist verse under notice was contirmed by two powerful Buddhist kings, king Asoka of ludia and king Dutthagimani of Ceylon, both of whom came to feel remorse and intense agony of heart at the recollection of their experiences on battle-fields. In the teaching of Asoka the idea of conquest by the dhamma took the place of the principle of self-conquest : “mukhamunte dharmavijaye ". The idea of self-conquest which shaped itself in the teaching of the Sramaos proper, came to be recognised by the Buddhist teachers and kings as a distinct principle of action, and that in & form of conquest of hatred by love, claimed in the Rajovāda Jātaka?, a marked advance on the 'tit for tat' principle. In this respect Buddhism can claim as much superiority to the juristic faith of the Brāhmans* as Christianity to the Mostic doctrine of the Israels.
Sahasani = Pali sahassāni, Sk. suhasrūni. If this he not an inversion for the Pāli instrumental singular form sahassena, it must be interpreted as referring to manusa, like salāni in the Mahāvastu verse. Ho=Pali kho, ao expletive denoting assertion. Sagamu utamu= Pāli sarigāmajuttano. M. Sevart considers the Pali reading as the result of a confusion of writing. But there is no confusion here at all. It is simply sarigă maji +uttama, a compound, which by the Pāli rule of sandhi bas beaome sargūmajuttamo. Cf. sangrāmajit of the Mabāvastu.
iPadhana Sutta, Suttanipäta, No. 28-!alitavistara, chap. XVIII. ; Mahăvastu ; Märusarnyatta, Samyatta Nikaya, I. Cf. Lalitaristara, chap. XXI. and Buddhacarita, Bk. XIII-XIV.
? Bhikkhuņi-Samyutta, Samyutta Nik&ya, I.
Mundaka Up., 11. 2. 3.4. • Uttrådhyayana, IX. 20-22. saroka's Rock Edict, XIII; Mahavamsa, XXY. 108. * Dhamninpada, v. 5.
1 Rajovado-játaka, No. 27, whero the akkochcha jine kodhail principle is contrasted with the dalhena (lolhar khepanarit.
Tin Sanskrit Epica condemn only " wrth without any provocation" (rma rairavit ruilrntu).
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