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This article has drawn my attention to another point of religio philosophical importance, now better to say of socio-cultural importance. Buddhist and Jaina ethics begins with veramani. Negative partical is an abbreviation of the word veramani. Sk. virati and vrata its later form, occupy significant position in all the religious codes in India. Should not be there some analytical studies to locate the inner current whether the religio-philosophical concepts are based on negation, or that the positive pastulates give rise to negative ones ?
The monograph on Jaina śramaņa' by Dr. Phool Chandra Jain is a concise exposition of the external code prescribed for a Jaina śramaņa. His spiritual development reflects in bis external activity. Whatsoever it may be, spiritual development rather governs the external activities of a śramana. The same have been codified in Sramanā āra. A śramana, well progressing in spiritual development, becomes in a position to govern even the activities of his senses, mind and body as a whole. He may not allow his external eyes to see let they may remain open, the ears to hear, the nose to smell and so on. He can remain without food and water as long as he so desires. He can remain without sleep. Even his body remains unaffected by weather and environment. In the coldest day, his body needs no clothing, in hottest and in rains no shelter. It is what the Mahaśramana Vardhamāna Mahāvira experimented for more than thirty years in his life and propounded his successful results of experiments for the welfare of humanity. It is what Acārānga, the first sacred book of the Jaina tradition records. Dr. Jain has drawn the sources from Ardhamāgadhi and Sauraseni Jainagamas and also from other Prakrit and Sanskrit works. A detailed monograph on the subject in continuation to the History of Jaina Monachism' by S.B. Deo (Deccan College Dissertation series 17) is an urgent meet the immediate demand for comparative study of Indian monachism.
A close look in the paper on 'Ahimsā' and the monograph on Jaina śramaņa' show some inner relations. While the article suggests some areas of experimental research on Animsā, the monograph furnishes some details of experiments on Ahimsa persued by the Jaina śramanas. Such source material provides the guidelines for further researches undertaken for intensive studies.
The Siddhamopāyanam, a Pali Text containing 621 gãthās in 19 chapters, was edited by Rev. Richard Morris and was published in Roman script in the Journal of the Pali Text Society in 1887, Oxford University Press,
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