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Jaina Sutras Part I

Hermann Jacobi (translator)

2,128 passages indexed from Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra (Hermann Jacobi (translator)) — Page 12 of 43

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Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1143
If a monk or a nun, swimming in the water, should be overcome by weakness, they should throw off their implements (clothes, &c.), either all or a part of them, and not be attached to them. Now they should know this : If they are able to get out of the water and reach the bank, they should circumspectly remain on the bank with a wet or moist body. (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1005
monk or a nun may accept flattened grains, &c. (cf. II, i y i, $ 5), for which they beg themselves or which the other gives them, if it be such as to require little cleaning or taking out (of chaff); for it is pure, &c. That is the fourth rule for begging food. (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1743
cymbals, drums, castanets, horns, small drums, kettle drums, Mura^as, Mrz'dangas, and Dundubhis 1 , which were accompanied at the same time by trumpets 2 . The customs, taxes, and confiscations were released, buying and* selling prohibited, no policemen were allowed to enter houses, great and small fines were remitted, and debts cancelled. Numberless excel- lent actors performed 3 and many Tdla^aras were present, drums sounded harmoniously, fresh gar- lands and wreaths were seen everywhere, and the whole population in the town and in the country rejoiced and was in full glee. (102)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 635
Those who deserve to be called fools, are born again and again. Standing low (in learning or con- trol) they will exalt themselves (and say) in their pride : I am learned. They speak harshly unto the passionless ; they upbraid them with their former trades, or revile them with untrue reproaches 2 . The wise, therefore, should know the law. Thou lovest unrighteousness, because thou art young, and lovest acts, and sayest : ' Kill beings ;' thou killest them or consentest to their being killed by others. (Such a man) thinks contemptuously : A very severe religion has been proclaimed. Sinking in opposition to the law, he is called murderer. Thus I say. (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 345
others pretend only to be houseless ; for one de- stroys this (water-body) by bad, injurious doings, and many other beings, besides, which he hurts by means of water, through his doing acts relating to water. (4) About this the Revered One has taught the truth : for the sake of the splendour, honour, and glory of this life, for the sake of birth, death, and final liberation, for the removal of pain, man acts sinfully towards water, or causes others to act so, or allows others to act so.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1080
1. If a monk or a nun wish to beg for a couch, they should not accept one which they recognise full of eggs, living beings, &c. (13)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 145
19. c Some (declare that he shall wear) an old rag after having washed it/ Baudhyana 7 says : ' He shall wear a dress dyed yellowish-red/ This rule agrees more with the practice of the Buddhists than that of the Gainas. The latter are forbidden to wash or dye their clothes, but they must wear them in the same condition in which they are given 8 . However, the Gainas have only carried into the extreme the original intention of the Brahmanic rule, viz.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 550
a This passage is perfectly analogous to that in the beginning of the lesson. But the scholiast explains the locatives which we have, according to his explanation in the former place, translated against the world, against these, here and in the similar passages which occur in this lecture, by, in the world, amongst these, viz. householders.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1727
In that night in which the Venerable Ascetic Mahavlra was born, many demons in Vaisramawa's
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1145
A monk or a nun on the pilgrimage should not wander from village to village, conversing with householders ; they may circumspectly wander from village to village. (8)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 2108
name of a Muhfirta, 265. Sattha (Sastra), i n 2. Saudharma Kalpa, a celestial re- gion, 222.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 846
1 Pounded or cooked or roasted, &c., because after only one operation sperms of life might still be left.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1747
8 This is the translation of a varia lectio. The adopted text has : while courtezans and excellent actors performed. 4 Cf. AJirdnga Sfitra II, 15, 1 1.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 279
It is evident that he regarded the A^r&nga Stitra as ending with the last-named passage, which is the last but one of the first book.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1995
But when they perceive that the water on their body has dried up and the moisture is gone, then they are allowed to take their meals. (43)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 207
During many centuries/ he says, 4 the Gainas had not become distinct from the numerous groups of ascetics who could not boast of more than an obscure floating
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1733
' O beloved of the gods, quickly set free all prisoners in the town of Ku^apura, increase measures and weights, give order that the whole town of Ku/zdapura with its suburbs be sprinkled with water, swept, and smeared (with cowdung, &c.) that in triangular places, in places where three or four roads meet, in courtyards, in squares, and in thoroughfares, the middle of the road and the path along the shops be sprinkled, cleaned, and swept ; that platforms be erected one above the other ; that the town be decorated with variously coloured flags and banners, and adorned with painted pavilions 2 ; that the walls bear impressions in Gorfrsha, fresh red sandal, and Dardara 3 of the hand with out- stretched fingers ; that luck-foreboding vases be put on the floor, and pots of the same kind be disposed round every door and arch ; that big, round, and long garlands, wreaths, and festoons be hung low
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1621
VAsish/Aa gotra, the former was on her couch taking fits of sleep in a state between sleeping and waking; and seeing that these fourteen illustrious 1 beautiful, lucky, blest, auspicious, fortunate, great dreams were taken from her by the Kshatriy&#t Tri^ald, she awoke. (31)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1133
If a monk or a nun see that water enters through a leak in the boat, and the boat becomes dirty all over, they should not approach the boatman and say: ' O long-lived householder ! water enters through a leak into the boat, and it becomes dirty all over/
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1386
Also to sounds of wind instruments, viz, the conch, flute, Kharamukht, or PiripiriyA. (4)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 471
the highest good, He who has right intuition, commits- no sin. (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1162
The Kevalin says: This is the reason: The deer, cattle, birds, snakes, animals living in water, on land, in the air might be disturbed or frightened, and strive to get to a fold or (other place of) refuge, (thinking) : ' The 6rama#a will harm me !'
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 300
1 See Calcutta edition, I, p. 435 seq., vv. 251-268. f S&isayatta*ea, Weber, 1. c.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1275
If he sees in his way thieves, he should not from. fear of them, and to save his clothes, leave the road or go into another road, &c. (see II, 3, 3, 13), but undisturbed, his mind not directed to outward things,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1641
8. Then she saw an extremely beautiful and very large flag, a sight for all people, of a form attractive to the beholders. It was fastened to a golden staff with a tuft of many soft and waving peacock's feathers of blue, red, yellow, and white colours, and seemed as if it would pierce the brilliant, celestial sphere, with the brilliant lion on its top, who was white like crystal, pearlmother, Anka-stone, Kunda- flowers, spray of water, or a silver cup. (40)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 546
(in the sawsdra), they (experience) here again and again feelings (i.e. punishment) 1 . Many live by injurious deeds against the world, they live by injurious deeds against these (living beings) 2 . Also the fool, suffering (for his passions), delights in bad acts here, mistaking that for salvation which is none. Many (heretics) lead the life of a hermit (in order to avoid worldly sorrows and pains). (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1330
A monk or a nun, having got possession of a place in a traveller's hall, &c., should avoid all occasions to sin (proceeding from any preparations made by) the householders or thfeir sons, and should occupy that place according to the following rules. (7)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 382
Longing for these objects, people are careless, suffer day and night, work in the right and the wrong time, desire wealth and treasures, commit injuries and violent acts, direct the mind, again and again, upon these injurious doings (de.- scribed in the preceding lecture), (i) (Doing so), the life of some mortals (which by destiny would have been long) is shortened.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 904
When a monk or a nun on a begging-tour comes^ upon walls or gates, or bolts or holes to fit them, they should, in case there be a byway, avoid those (obstacles), and not go on straight.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 261
earlier 1 ; and it is assuredly not by accident that the know- ledge of the Pftrvas is said to have commenced to fade away at the same time when the Ahgas were collected by the Sangha of Pi/aliputra. For after Bhadrabahu, only ten out of the fourteen Ptirvas were known.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 269
Professor A. Weber 1 assigns as the probable cause of (ftie Dr/sh/ivcida being lost, that the development of the SVet&mbara sect had arrived at a point where the diversity of its tenets from those embodied in that book became too visible to be passed over. Therefore the Drzshrivclda, which contained the Pftrvas, fell into neglect. I cannot concur in Professor Weber's opinion, seeing that the Digambaras also have lost the Ptirvas, and the Angas to boot.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1715
1 From the moment that this our boy has been begotten, our silver increased, our gold increased, &c. (see 90, clown to) the intensity of our liberality and popularity highly increased. Therefore when this our boy will be born, we shall give him the fit name, attributive and conformable to his quality Vardham^na V (91)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 545
" * The change of number here and in the analogous passages at the beginning of the second and third lessons is one of the gram- matical irregularities in which our text abounds.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 435
1 Amagandha, unclean, is also a Buddhist term; see Rhys Davids' Buddhism, pp. 131, 181.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1510
This is, Sir, the first great vow : Abstinence from killing any living beings, i.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1580
When the Br&hmawt Devdnanda had heard and perceived this news from the Brhma?za ^?/shabha- datta, she glad, pleased, and joyful, &c. (see 5)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 171
confined, at least in the first two centuries of their church, to a small patt of the country, and therefore could not have been imitated by all the Sa#my&sins ; thirdly, Gau- tama, the lawgiver, was certainly older than the rise of Buddhism. For Professor Biihler thinks that the lower limit for the_^mjo^t^ j?^ tra O 1118 *
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 752
1 It is called pSovagamafla, translated by the commentators pfidapopagamana, remaining motionless like a felled tree. This etymology, which is generally adopted by the dramas, is evidently wrong; for the Sanskrit prototype is the Brahmanical prdyopa- gamana.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 423
9 The commentators give no explanation of what is meant by ' the three ways/ yet cf. 3, 5.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1971
on every third day, is allowed to accept three kinds of drinks : water used for washing sesamum, chaff, or barley 1 . A monk who during the Partisan eats one meal on every fourth day, is allowed to accept three kinds of water : rain-water, or sour gruel, or pure (i. e. hot) water. A monk who during the Pa^gnsan keeps still more protracted fasts, is allowed to accept only one kind of drink : hot pure water. It must contain no boiled rice 2 . A monk who ab- stains from food altogether, is allowed to accept only one kind of drink : pure hot water. It must contain no boiled rice ; it must be filtered, not unfiltered ; it must be a limited quantity, not an unlimited one ; it must be sufficient, not insufficient. (25)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1962
c Why, Sir, has this been said ?' ' Because a devout householder might buy it or steal it/ (19)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 490
(world from analogy with thy own) self ; [then] thou wilt neither kill nor destroy (living beings) ;' viz. out of reciprocal regard [well examining] he does no sinful act. What is the characteristic of a sage ? ' Recognising the equality (of all living beings), he appeases hisself.' (i) Knowing the highest good, one should never be
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1378
8 The commentator says . where they fall like a tree, having starved themselves to death, or where they fall from trfees.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1221
A monk or a nun, seeing many wild fruits, should speak about them in this way: 'They are very plen- tiful, they contain many seeds, they are fully grown, they have developed their proper shape ; ' consider- ing well, they should use such sinless, &c., lan- guage. (14)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1447
The Venerable Ascetic Mah^vtra belonged to the Kasyapa gotra. His three names have thus been recorded by tradition : by his parents he was called Vardhamina, because he is devoid of love and hate ; (he is called) .SYamatta (i.e. Ascetic), because he sus- tains dreadful dangers and fears, the noble naked- ness, and the miseries of the world ; the name Venerable Ascetic Mah&vtra has been given to him by the gods 3 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 987
But if he has inadvertently accepted it, he should not say: ' No, away, take it!' Knowing this, he should go apart, and in a garden or an upd^raya, where there are few eggs, &c., (all down to) cobwebs, eat the meat or fish, and taking the bones, he should resort to a secluded spot and leave them on a heap of ashes, &c (see II, i, i, 2). (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 929
The same rule holds good with regard to a moistened hand, &c., and a dusty hand, &c., and a hand which is soiled with clay, dew, orpiment, vermilion, realgar, collyrium, white chalk, alum, rice-flour, kukkusa, ground drugs. (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 500
Man ! Thou art thy own friend ; why wishest thou for a friend beyond thyself? Whom he knows as a 'dweller on high 1 , him he should know as a dweller far (from sin) ; and whom he knows as a dweller far (from sin), him he should know as a dweller on high. Man! restraining thyself (from the outward world) ' thou wilt get free from pain/ Man, understand well the truth ! exerting himself in the rule of truth a wise man overcomes M<ira. (4)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 280
The first book, then, is the oldest part of the A^rAhga Stitra ; it is probably th^fcd Adr&nga Sfttra itself to which other treatises have been added. For it is complete in
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1723
(95) In that period, in that age the Venerable- Ascetic Mahdvlra l after the lapse of nine months and