Book Title: Studies in South Indian Jainism
Author(s): M S Ramaswami Ayyangar, B Seshagiri Rao
Publisher: M S Ramaswami Ayyangar

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________________ 6' ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM. Jaina vs. Vaidios cultures. " C. P. Brown, all knowledge of them would have been lost to the modern world. These studies cannot therefore begin better than with salutations to those great souls that laboured in their own generation so earnestly that the world may think kindly and reverently of these whilom scenes of the conflicts of civilisations and systems of spiritual culture. The principal object or pradhāna purushārtha in life of a Jaina is meditation and self-purification for the attainment of arhathood ; indeed, it cannot be distinguished, except in the externalities of method, from the Upanishadic and Smarta ideal of life fór a Brahmana desirous of the attainment of moksha, freedom, viz., Swadhyāya and Brahmacharya, i.e., study and self-control by concentration. In the later Jaina inscriptions which fall within the period of the present investigation, Jaina munis are often described as yama-niyama-swādhyāyadhyāna-dhārana-mounānushtāna- japa-samādhisila-guna-sampannar (obowo Sorbato stogo goose pasa ధారణ మానానుష్టాన జప సమాధి శీల గుణ సంపన్నర్) and the followers of the Vaidica Dharma in similar terms as yama-niyama-swūdhyāya - dhyānadhārana-maunānushtāva - porāyana - japa - sīlasampannar (otwao postao stogaigao quiso quota sonu ponto స్థాన పరాయణ జప శీల సంపన్నర్). , It is said in the Jaina Agamas that Mahāvīra was the first to insist on celibacy for the Jaina munis in addition to traditional digambaratwa, i.e., nudity. A programme of life

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