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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________________ 32 ANDHRA KARNATA JAINISM, What credence do these traditions deserve, rich as they are in suggestiveness? This question must be faced as one turns from the curious pursuit of these glimmering lights of South Indian antiquity. Sufficient cumulative evidence has been let in from other sources not wholly traditional to enable one to arrive at a decision. It must however be acknowledged that a possible answer is offered by the recent progress made by South Indian Epigraphical Research. A similar answer, not perhaps so complete, yet equally authoritative and suggestive, is found in the progress of research in South Indian Archæology and Literature. APPENDIX A. The following account of Jaina Dharma is from a kaiphiyat from the Chingleput District (vide J.A.S.B. Vol. 7, p. 108) : () Yati Dharma (1) Ardhyavam to follow the right way and teach it to others, (2) Mardhava to behave with reverence to superiors and carefully to instruct disciples, (3) Satyam invariably to speak the truth, (4) Sasiyan mentally to renounce hatred, affection or passion and evil desire and outwardly to act, with pusity, (5) Tyagan to renounco all bad conduct, (6) Kshama to bear patiently like the earth in time of trouble, (7) Tapası outward and inward self-mortification, (8) Brahmacharyan to relinquish all sexual attachment in word and thought, (9) Aginchanam to renounce the darkness of error and follow the light of truth, (10) Samayam duly to celebrate all specied periods, festivals or the like. (6) The Sravana Dharma (1) Tarisinigen one who relinquished certain unclean kinds of food; (2) Vritiken one who eats not at night, is faithful to his teacher, to his family and to his religion ; he is selfrestrained and keeps silence and zealously renounces the use of all pleasant vegetables ; (3) Samathiken one who with foregoing qualifi. cations, renders homage to the Divine being three times a day, morning, noon and evening : (+) Proshopavasen one who fasts on certain days so appointed to be observed; (5) Sachitan-Vrithen one who with the foregoing dispositions renounces certain kinds of food; (6) Rattiribhaktan one who observes mortification (?) during the day only ; (7) Brahmacharya one always occupied in the contemplation of God; (8) Anaram pan one who quits cultivation and all other secular occupations ; (9) Aparigrapam one who renounces all kinds of earthly gain ; (10) Amemati-pinda-Vriten one who forbears to cat even that which he has prepared ; (11) Utishtu-pinda-Vriten one who relinquishes dress, except for mere decency. He carried a pot and lives in the wilderness. (c) The Purva Karma and A para Karma. Birth Samskaras and Death Samskaras (obsequies).

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