Schools and Sects in Jaina Literature

Author(s): Amulyachandra Sen
Publisher: Vishwa Bharati Calcutta

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SCHOOLS AND SECTS IN JAINA LITERATURE
All beings seek happiness and turn away from suffering; therefore the seeker of happiness should give happiness, for the giver of happiness obtains happiness.
manuṇṇam bhoyaṇam bhocca maṇunnam sayaṇāsanam 1 manunnamsi agaramsi maqunäam jhayae munia 11
Having enjoyed a pleasant dinner, a pleasant bed and seat, a saint dwells in a pleasant abode and meditales pleasantly.
mrdvi sayyā prātarutthaya peyä, bhuktam madhye pänakam ciparähne dräkṣākhandam Sarkarā cärdharätre mokṣascänte Sakyaputrena drstab 11
A soft bed, drinks in the morning, dinner at midday, drinks in the afternoon, and grapes and sugar at night-these have been laid down by Sakhyaputra as leading to salvation.
These are supposed to be drawn from works of the Buddhists themselves explaining their faith or from the writing of others professing to explain it. It is quite clear that as a matter of fact they are taken from the writings of hostile critics and from satires on the teachings of Buddha. Harṣakula thinks that the verse in the text might refer to svatirthyas, some members of the same order as the speaker's, i.e., the Nirgrauthas. The events of later days led the commentators, one feels constrained to say, to fasten every possible adverse criticism on to the Buddhists to make up, as it were, for the dearth of anti-Buddhist statements in the texts. The present instance is a very strained attempt to drag in the Buddhists. Both in this verse as well as in another1 Harşakula is undecided about its exact application and names several possible alternatives. The truth probably is that the allusion was to a distinct view which held that like is produced by like and therefore moksa being an agrecable thing is obtained by living an agreeable and comfortable life. This is the view held by the Tantrikas.": The Sätavadins also held the same view."
The doctrine of Buddha has been included among those false beliefs which are the products of wrong knowledge."
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Sut.S. I.iii.4.10.
See Cittavisuddhiprakarana attributed to Aryadeva, JASB, lxvii, 1898, p. 175, and Subhaṣitasamgraha, p. 37. I am indebted to Pandit Vidhushekhar Bhattacharya for these references.
"This has been discussed later.
* Ann. 40; Nandi 42.