Book Title: Sambodhi 1973 Vol 02
Author(s): Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

Previous | Next

Page 215
________________ K. K Dixit (which, however, have played no significant role in the subsequent develop ment of the Jaina ethical discussion): attachment preyas dveşa aversion kalaha quarrel abhyakhyana calumny pallunyameanness parapairvada slander rati-arati love-hate maya-moşa deception mithya-darśana =false faith What is still more anomalous is that this list of 18 vices is the standard such list in Prajñāpana though in no text of classical Jainism (certainly not in Umäsvati's Tattvartha). It seems that it was only later on that the Jaina authors started to attach a special value not only to the list of four kaşayas, but also to that of five basic vows. The idea is somewhat disturbing but seems to be well based. Perhaps Acaranga-II.3 is the first Jaina taxt to have taken up a detailed treatment of the five basic vows along with the five accessories each (called bhavana) superadded to them. And to add 'renunciation of nightly eating' as a sixth item in this list, as is done in Datavaikalika 4, was a still later phenomenon; (in all probability the passage concerned was a later interpolation in Datavaikalika it being a solitary prose passage in a text otherwise composed in verse). Be that as it may, the Bhagavatt passages dealing with ethical problems raise to the status of a basic vice nothing except violence (and acquisitiveness)-this again being an evidence of the relatively early origin of these passages. Another evidence of the relatively early origin of the Bhagavatt passages dealing with ethical problems is the relative absence in them of a treatment of the householder's duties; (in the oldest Jalna texts such treatment is conspicious by its absence.) Thus only in a few passages is the question raised as to what merit accrues to a householder who feeds a monk well and what demerit to one who feeds him ill.10 About two passages speak of a householder performing sāmāyika, one speaks of the pratyakhyana (meaning 'renunciation of violence') on his part. All these passages must be relatively late and the latest must be one which speaks of what the later authors call the twelve vows of a householder'. These twelve vows include those 'five basic vows' as observed on a gross level and seven others called 'additional Vows', but the anomaly about this passage is that even in the case of a monk's vows it speaks of 'five basic vows'-as observed on a full-fledged

Loading...

Page Navigation
1 ... 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417