Rushibhashit Sutra

Author(s): Vinaysagar, Sagarmal Jain, Kalanath Shastri, Dineshchandra Sharma
Publisher: Prakrit Bharti Academy

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woeful by pain, afflicitions are not invited. That means a person without desires does not trigger woes.
After this, this chapter mainly propagates that sin is the chief cause of non-liberation and continued rebirth. On the basis of this, it has been deduced that as sprouting of a plant is natural consequence of the existence of seed, woes are natural consequence of existence of sin. In the end it has been established that soul is the doer of all deeds and sufferer of all consequences. As such, a mendicant should abandon the path of sin for the benefit of his own soul. As a snake charmer destroys the poison pouch of a snake, a mendicant should destroy roots of woes. In Madhurayan's view the root of woe is the desire for pleasure (mundane pleasures) and as such a mendicant should be free of desire for mundane pleasures.
On a comparative study we find that the subject matter of this chapter is in line with the subject matter of other chapters of Rishibhashit. This 15th chapter is similar to the 9th chapter in subject matter. This fact has also been accepted by the author of this work by stating Navam ajjhayanagamarannam vaneyavvam.'
In absence of any information about him elsewhere in Buddhist and Vedic traditions it is not possible to present a comparative study about Madhurayana.
16. SHAURYAYANA (SORIYAYANA) The 16th chapter of Rishibhashit!57 is about the Arhat Rishi named Shauryayan, (Soriyayana). Besides Rishibhashit Soriya has been mentioned in Sthanang 58 and Vipak-Sutral59.
In Vipak-Sutra he has been mentioned as Soriyadatta. According to Sthanang, the title of the seventh chapter of Karmavipak-dasha is Soriya, but in the available edition of VipakSutra mention of Soriyadatta is found in the eighth chapter. In this chapter he is said to be the son of a fisherman, Samudradatta, of Soriyapur town. As the story goes, once a fish bone stuck into his throat. All efforts to take it out were invain and he had to suffer extreme agony.
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