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Seminar on Jainism
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of precedence in the social hierarchy did not correspond with that of the castes. Such at least the picture we get from the Praśna-Vjākaiona which mentiora the tran giesmys of the law of brahmacarya in the following order : kings.otcrlor chan. lains, high officers of the state. The same text has 3 mare detailed enumeration with regard to the violations of the fifth vow of aparigrala : emperors, Vasudevas, Vändlalihas, chic tains, Talavaras, commonders-in-chief, millionaires, hinkein, Rāsyrikas, purohitas and the like in neither case ite 'ul caste names are to be found. It is likely that people mentioned in these two lists were the wielders of rouer where the 43110 distinction was indicative of prestige only. This might have been the case in the early centuries of the Christianer wher, viewed from the use of such ternis of Turas, Män laikas Rāstrikas etc, the Prašauarrākarana was compileu
Dr. Chakravorty maintained that the Sadros : a caste existed only in theory. Even then like the term Brāhmana it came to signify a mode of conduct or a state of attitude in the Uttaradhyayana Sūtra it is stated that the possessor of good qualities is Brāhmana and the reverse, Sudra. The same text contracts the Brāhmanas and Katrivas with the Canlālas. It will, thus, appear that in the early Jain texts, there is a ten. dency to use the terms Sudra and Cāndāla as synonymous
Sri A. K. Bhattacharya, Director, Indian Museum and a wellknown scholar gave his discourse supported with slides He made a brief survey of the JAIN ICONOGRAPHY and stated that the relaxed torso from the Indus Valley Civili. tion pertains to any of the Jain Tirthanlara figures in their Kāyotsarga pose, existence of Jain images in that remolage can only be guessed. The Gupta dorestals of Tirthankara figures show a variety of arrangements of the figures and symbols on them. Sometimes, the Central Jurnuakru is flanked by the particular symbols or emblein 21tached to the particular Thirtharkaras; sometimes, again the symbol occupies the central position flanked often by lions signifying the
