Words For Violence In Seniors Of Jaina Canon

Author(s): Colette Caillat
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East (Jaina Sūtras translated from Prākrit by Hermann Jacobi: 22, London, 1884 (Ayır); 45, 1895 (Utt; Sūy); repr. Delhi, 1964. - Sūy = Sūyagadanga-sutta, ed. Jambūvijaya, JAS 2.2, 1978 (ref. successively 1) as in Jacobi's SBE tsl., 2) as in JAS). - T - Tikā. - Überblick = O. von Hinüber, Das ältere Mittelindisch im Überblick, Wien 1986 (Österreichische Ak. der Wiss., Philosophisch-Hist. Kl. Sitzungsberichte, 467) (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Sprachen und Kultur Südasiens 20). - Utt = Uttarajjhāyā, ed. by J. Charpentier, Lund, 1921-22 (Archives d'Etudes Orientales, 18.1-2), ref. to chapter and verse; by Punyavijaya and A.M. Bhojak, Bombay, 1977 (JAS 15); ed. with Bhāvavijaya's vịtti, by Bhuvanabhānu, Bombay, 1982. - Uv = Udānavarga, hrsg. von F. Bernhard, Göttingen, PhilologischHistorische Kl. 3.54, (Sanskrittexte aus den Turfanfunden X). - Udanavarga de Subaši (Bibl. Nationale de Paris. Fonds Pelliot), par H. Nakatani, Paris, 1987 (Pub. Institut de Civilisation Indienne 53). - Worte = Worte Mahāvīras. Kritische Übersetzungen aus dem Kanon der Jaina, von W. Schubring, Göttingen-Leipzig, 1926 (Quellen der Rel.-Gesch. 14.7) (German trsl. of Āyār 1; Sūy 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.12, 2.1, 2.7).
NOTES
1. Dasav I.1: "The best word to begin with, is Dharma. (Dharma consists in)
non-violence, self-control and asceticism" (Schubring). 2. On the etymology of HIMS, and the related discussions, H.-P. Schmidt, “The
origin of ahimsa" (in Mélanges d'indianisme à la mémoire de Louis Renou, Paris 1958, 625-655), ubi alia; KEWAI, s.v. hinasti, ubi alia. Also see (for Pali) Saddanīti (ed. H. Smith, Lund 1928-66), p. 398.6: hana hiņsā-gatisu.
For the general context, see the recent publications of The International Institute for Buddhist Studies, Tokyo, 1991: Buddhism and Nature. Proceedings of an International Symposium on the occasion of EXPO 1990. Further, Lambert Schmithausen, Buddhism and Nature. The lecture delivered on the occasion of the EXPO 1990. An enlarged Version with notes (Studia Philologica Buddhica. Occasional Paper Series VII). Id., The problem of the sentience of plants in
Earliest Buddhism (Studia Philologica Buddhica. Monograph Series VI). 3. On the tridanda of the Brahmanic ascetics and on the Buddhist Vinaya prescrip
tions and / or prohibitions concerning staffs, see O. v. Hinüber, Sprachentwicklung und Kulturgeschichte. Ein Beitrag zur materiellen Kultur des buddhistischen Klosterlebens, Stuttgart 1992 (Ak. der Wiss. u. der Literatur. Abhandl. der Geistes-und Sozialwiss. Kl., 1992 Nr. 6), ubi alia.