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PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA
“We hear also of another error of some (philosophers) : some say that the world has been created (or is governed) by the gods, others, by Brahman."
isarena kade loe pahäņāi tahāvare / jīvājīva-samõutte suha-dukkha-samaņņie 1/65//
"Some say that it has been created by the Isvara, others that it was produced from chaos, etc., this world with living beings and lifeless things, with its variety of pleasure and pain.”
sayambhūņā kada loe iti vuttam mahesiņā / māreņa samthuyā māyā teņa loe asāsaye // 66 ||
"The great Rşi said, that the world has been created by Svayambhū; Māra originated Māyā, therefore, the world (appears to be) uneternal.”
māhaņā samaņā eye āha andakade jage / aso tattam akāsi ya ayāņamtā musam vae // 67 ||
"Some Brāhmaṇas and Sramaņas say that the universe was produced from the (primeval) egg, and He (Brahman) created the things. These ignorant men speak untruth."
saehim pariyāehim logam büyā kade tti ya / tattam te na viyāṇasti ņāyam ņāsi kayāi vi // 68 //
“Those who on arguments of their own maintain that the world has been created, do not know the truth. Nor will (the world) ever perish."
V.M. Kulkarni in his book, The Story of Rāma in Jain Literature, (Saraswati Pustak Bhandar, Ahmedabad, 1990, p. 77) has informed us that Vimala Sūri (1st/2nd cent. A.D.) in his Paümacariyam has said that "the Rāmāyaṇa stories are most certainly lies", and "the poets who composed Rāmāyaṇa were lairs." Vimala Sūri saysaliyam pi savvam eyam uvavatti-viruddha-paccaya
gunehim / na ya saddahamti purisā, havamti je pandiya loe //
Paüma. II. 117. In a fifth-century text the Srävaka-prajñapti by an anonymous author, and its commentator Haribhadra
