Studies in Buddhist and Jaina Monachism

Author(s): Nand Kishor Prasad
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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in India it could survive and flourish in the dry regions of Rajasthan and Gujarat in the west and Mysore in the south only. It could not survive in Assam, Bengal, and Bihar where rains are abundant and vegetable growth profuse and dence.
Both the Buddhist and the Jaina codes of discipline bear obvious cases of borrowing and adoptation from the Brahmanical sources. For example, the five fundamental precepts of good conduct practised alike by the Buddhists and the Jainas derived, most probably, their inspiration and source from the Brahmanicai code. The table given below will illustrate our viewpoint clearly :
Brahmanical!
1. Abstention from injuring living beings, 2. Truthfulness, 3. Abstention from appropriating the property of others, 4. Continence, 5. Liberality.
Buddhist
1. Not to destroy life, 2. Not to steal, 3. Not to commit adultery", 4. Not to tell lies",
5. Not to take intoxicating drinks. Jaina
1. Not to destroy life, 2. Not to tell lies, 3. Not to appropriate what is not given, 4. Not to indulge in sexual intercourse, 5. Not to find interest in worldly possessions.
Besides, similar other instances where either the Buddhists or the Tainas borrowed or adopted from the Brahmapical code may also be spotted out. Such regulation as making a murderer of an arahata incompetent for entry to the Buddhist Church appears to be introduced
1. Baudhayana, II, 10.18; SBE. Vol- XXII, Introduction, pp. xxii-iv. 2. The Laws of Manu (SBE. Vol. XXV) p. 416; The Sacred Laws of the Aryas,
(SBE. Vol. II), p. 188. 3. Vişnud harmasūtra (SBE. Vol. VII), p. 136. 4. The Sacred Lau's of the Aryas, (SBE. Vol. II), p. 299.. 5. Ibid. pp. 63, 74, 188.