Jaina Sutras Part I
Hermann Jacobi (translator)
2,128 passages indexed from Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra (Hermann Jacobi (translator)) — Page 14 of 43
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Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 644
4 This is equivalent either to believers and heretics, or to clerical and lay men.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 57
Through his mother Mah&vira was^related to the ruling^ dyna*sty in Magadfia ; for ATe/aka's daughter^ ^ ellanci 3 waslnamed to"3emya Bimbhis&ra 4 or Bimbis^ra, king of Magadha, and residing in R^agrzha. He is praised by the Gainas and Buddhists, as the friend and patron of both
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 513
The Arhats and Bhagavats of the past, present, and future, all say thus, speak thus, declare thus, explain thus : all breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures 1 should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away, (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1074
A monk or a nun should not use for religious postures, &c., a lodging for which they have to pass through the householder's abode, or to which there is no road ; for it is not fit, &c. (see last para- graph). (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1587
In that period, in that age, .Sakra, the chief and king of the gods, the*wielder of the thunderbolt, the destroyer of towns, the performer of a hundred sacri- fices, the thousand-eyed one, Maghavan, the punisher of the Daitya P^ka, the lord of the southern half of the earth \ the lord of the thirty-two thousand celestial abodes, the bestrider of the elephant A iravata, the chief of the Suras, who wears spotless clothes and robes 2 , and puts on garlands and the diadem, whose cheeks were stroked by fine, bright, and trembling earrings of fresh gold [the most prosperous, the most brilliant, the most mighty, the most glorious, the most power- ful, and the most happy one], with a splendid body, ornamented with a long down-reaching garland, this .Sakra was in the Saudharma Kalpa, in the celestial abode Saudharma Avatawsaka, in the council-hall Sudharman, on his throne .Sakra ; he who exercises and maintains the supreme command, government,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1522
A Nirgrantha who has taken possession of some ground, should always take possession of a limited part of it and for a fixed time. The Kevalin says : If a Nirgrantha who has taken possession of some ground, should take possession of an unlimited part of it and for an unfixed time, he might take what is not given. A Nirgrantha, &c.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 892
A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., in the houses of Kshatriyas, kings, messengers, and relations of kings, whether they are inside or outside, or invite them ; for such food, &c, is impure and unacceptable. Thus I say. (10)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1627
and well-set teeth ; whose lovely lips, splendent through their proportions, and soft like a noble lotus, looked as if they were artificially ornamented ; whose palate 1 was soft and tender like the petals of the red lotus, and the top of whose tongue was pro- truding ; whose eyes were like pure lightning, and revolved like red-hot excellent gold just poured out from the crucible ; (a lion) with broad and large thighs, and with full and excellent shoulders, who was adorned with a mane of soft, white, thin, long hair of the finest quality ; whose erect, well-shaped, and well-grown tail was flapping ; the tops of whose nails were deeply set and sharp ; whose beautiful tongue came out of his mouth like a shoot of beauty. (35)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1312
(see II, i, 8, 2), having reflected (on its fitness for a stay) ; he should ask permission to take possession of it from him who is the landlord or the steward of that place : ' Indeed, O long-lived one! for the time, and in the space which you concede us, we shall dwell here. We shall take possession of the place for as long a time as the place belongs to you ; and of as much of it as belongs to you ; for as many fellow- ascetics (as shall stand in need of it) ; afterwards we shall take to wandering 1 / (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1500
i. The first great vow, Sir, runs thus : I renounce all killing of living beings, whether subtile or gross, whether movable or immovable. Nor shall I myself kill living beings (nor cause others to do it, nor consent to it). As long as I live, I confess and blame, repent and exempt my- self of these sins, in the thrice threefold way 1 , in mind, speech, and body.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1266
A monk or a nun should beg for acceptable clothes, and wear them in that state in which they get them ; they should not wash or dye them, nor should they wear washed or dyed clothes, nor (should they) hide (their clothes) when passing through other vil- lages, being careless of dress. This is the whole duty for a mendicant who wears clothes 1 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 837
8 This is the typical beginning of most precepts or sfitras in this se bhikkhd vd bhikkhufti v& gdhavaikula/B pi#2d?avayapa</iy3e a#upavi//Ae sam#e se gg%m pu/ra g&negg. In the sequel I have shortened this rather lengthy preamble.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1325
The monk might wish ,to eat or suck one half of a mango or a mango's peel or rind or sap or. smaller particles. If the monk or the nun perceive that the above-enumerated things are covered with eggs, or living beings, they should not take them ; for they are impure, &c. But they may take them, if they are
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 899
1 This precept applies, according to the commentator, only to sick monks, or such as can get nothing elsewhere.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 77
Of the details of Mahavira's life, men- tioned in the canonical books, his rivalry with, and victory over Go^ala, the son of Makkhali, and lastly, the place of his death, the small town Papa, deserve to be noticed.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 475
own unrighteousness. (3) Thence the most learned, knowing (what is called)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 704
immovable like a beam; exerting himself he dis- solves his body 1 / (3)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1675
the groups of lotuses. When in due time the god of the day had risen and by the blows of his hands (or rays) the darkness was driven away, while the inhabited world was, as it were, dipped in saffron by the morning sun, the Kshatriya Siddhdrtha rose from his bed, (59) descended from the footstool, went to the hall for gymnastic exercises, and entered it.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1464
Sakra, the leader and king of the gods, quietly and slowly stopped his vehicle and chariot, quietly and slowly descended from it and went apart. There he underwent a great transformation, and produced by magic a great, beautiful, lovely, fine-shaped divine pavilion \ which was ornamented with many designs in precious stones, gold, and pearls. In the middle part of that divine pavilion he produced one great throne of the same description, with a footstool. (19)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 290
I had therefore to leave unnoticed all such passages which, as the one quoted above, might be taken as a Pclda of a vSloka ; for in every prose work such passages occur, though they never were meant for verse. They may, therefore, only accidentally resemble parts of a 51oka in our book too, though the great number of such passages is rather suspicious. The greatest difficulty however we should incur if we were to point out the prose quota- tions, though there are certainly such, e.g.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1237
A monk or a nun may ask for clothes which they have well inspected, from the householder or his wife, &c. After consideration, they should say : * O long- lived one ! (or, O sister !) please give me one of these clothes !' If they beg for them, or the house- holder gives them, they may accept them ; for they are pure and acceptable.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 450
should prudently conquer 1 the obstructions to righteousness. Thus I say. (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 239
1 I do not contend that no double forms of any word were current at any time, for there must have been a good many double forms, but I doubt that nearly every word should have existed in two or three forms.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 750
He should not be attached to the transitory pleasures, nor to the greater ones ; he should not nourish desire and greed, looking only for eternal praise. (23)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1895
Since the time that the Arhat -/?zshabha, the Kosalian, died, &c, (all down to) freed from all pains, three years and eight and a half months elapsed; thereupon one ko/i of ko/is of Sgaropamas, less forty-two thousand and three years and eight and a half months, elapsed. At that time the Vener- able Ascetic Mahvlra died ; after his Nirv#a nine centuries elapsed, of the tenth century this is the eightieth year.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 66
1 That the same person is intended by both names is evident from the fact that according to Buddhist and Gaina writers he is the father of Udsiyin or Udayibhaddaka, the founder of Pifaliputra in the records of the Gainas and Brahmans.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1105
Whether his lodging 1 be even or uneven ; full of, or free from, draughts ; full of, or free from, dust ; full of, or free from, flies and gnats ; full of, or free from, dangers and troubles in any such-like lodging one should contentedly stay, nor take offence at any- thing.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1997
What is ^understood by the small living beings? The small living beings are declared to be of five kinds : black, blue, red, yellow, and white ones. There is an animalcule called Anuddhari, which when at rest and not moving is not easily seen by monks and nuns who have not yet reached perfection, which when not at rest but moving is easily seen by monks and nuns who have not yet reached perfec- tion. Monks and nuns who have not yet reached perfection must diligently perceive, observe, and inspect this. Those are the small living beings. (44)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1176
If a monk or a nun, wandering from village to vil- lage, sees a vicious cow coming towards them, &c. (see II, i, 5, I 3), they should not, from fear of them, leave the road, or go into another road, nor enter a thicket, wood, or stronghold, nor climb a tree, nor take a plunge in a large and extended water-sheet, nor desire a fold or any other place of refuge, or an army or a caravan ; but undisturbed, the mind not directed to outward things, they should collect them- selves for contemplation ; thus they may circum- spectly wander from village to village. (13)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1787
With supreme knowledge, with supreme intuition, with supreme conduct, in blameless lodgings, in blameless wandering, with supreme valour, with supreme uprightness, with supreme mildness, with supreme dexterity, with supreme patience, with 'su- preme freedom from passions, with supreme control, with supreme contentment, with supreme under- standing, on the supreme path to final liberation, which is the fruit of veracity, control, penance, and good conduct, the Venerable One meditated on him- self for twelve years,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 484
And the hero should conquer wrath and pride, Look at the great hell (as the place) for greed. Therefore the hero abstaining from killing, Should destroy sorrow, going the road of easiness 3 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 396
8 Arati is usually dislike, fiu//ai exercise; but, according to the commentators, these words here mean samyamSrati and nivar- tayati.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1877
2 Kulakara; these Kulakaras were the first kings and founders of families ^t the time when the rest of mankind were ' Yugalins.' The first Kulakara was Vimalavahana ; the seventh and last of the line Nbhi.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1823
When his Karman which produces Vedantya (or what one has to experience in this world), Ayus (length of life), name, and family, had been exhausted, when in this Avasarpi^i era the greater part of the Du^shamasusham period had elapsed and only three years and eight and a half months were left, when the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Svati, at the time of early morning, in the town of P&p&, and in king Hastipala's office of the writers, (Mah&vira) single and alone, sitting in the Samparyarika posture, reciting the fifty-five lectures which detail the results of Karman, and the thirty-six 2 unasked questions, when he just explained the chief lecture (that of Marudeva) he died, &c.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1082
3. If the couch is free from eggs, Hying beings, light, but not movable, they should not accept such a couch. (15)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 78
Nor are we by any means forced to rely on the tradition of the Crainas only, since for some particulars we have the testi- mony of the Buddhists also, in whose writings Mahavira is mentioned under his well-known name Nataputta, as the head of the Niga;*//fcas or Gaina monks and a rival of Buddha.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 2059
kara, a 80. Dinara, denar, 233. Dfrghabhadra, 289. Diseases, various kinds of, 18, 19.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 909
When a monk or a x nun on a begging-tour per- ceives that the entrance of a householder's abode is secured by a branch of a thorn bush, they should not, without having previously got the (owner's) permission, and having examined and swept (the entrance), make it passable or enter and leave (the
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 983
A monk or a nun .on a begging-tour should not accept meat or fish containing many bones, so that only a part of it can be eaten and the greater part must be rejected ; for such meat or fish, &c., is impure and unacceptable. (5)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 848
A monk or a nun entering or leaving the out-of- door places for religious practices or for study 1 should not do so together with a heretic or a house- holder; or a monk who avoids all forbidden food, together with one who does not. (8)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1682
His face was lighted up by earrings, and his head by a diadem ; his breast was adorned and decked with necklaces, and his fingers were, as it were, gilded by his rings. His upper garment of fine cloth contained swinging pearl pendants. He put on, as an emblem of his undefeated knighthood, glittering, well-made, strong, excellent, beautiful armlets, made by clever artists of spotless and costly jewels, gold, and precious stones of many kinds.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 2036
none will have to undergo more than seven or eight births. (63)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 350
control) ; and he who knows that which does no injury, knows also that through which no injury is done to the long-living bodies. (2) This has been seen by the heroes (of faith) who conquered ignorance ; for they control themselves, always exert themselves, always mind their duty. He who is unmindful of duty, and desiring of the qualities (i.e. of the pleasure and profit which may be derived from the elements) is called the torment 2 (of living beings).
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1842
When the moon was in conjunction with the asterism Vis&kha, he, after fasting three and a half days without drinking water, put on a divine robe, and together with three hundred men he tore out his hair, and leaving the house entered the state of houselessness. (157)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 861
guests, paupers, and beggars are entertained with food, &c. (all as in> i, down to) acceptable. (3)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1793
in kmg^Hastipila's office of the writers : that was his very last rainy season. (122)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 381
Quality is the seat of the root, and the seat of the root is quality 1 . He who longs for the qualities, is overcome by great pain, and he is careless 2 . (For he thinks) I have to provide for a mother, for a father, for a sister, for a wife, for sons, for daughters, for a daughter-in-law, for my friends, for near and remote relations, for my acquaintances 3 , for different kinds of property, profit, meals, and clothes.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 393
Through wrong in- struction the (would-be) sages trouble themselves (for pleasures) ; thus they sink deeper and deeper in delusion, (and cannot get) to this, nor to the opposite shore ft . Those who are freed (from attach- ment to the world and its pleasures), reach the opposite shore 6 . Subduing desire by desirelessness, he does not enjoy the pleasures that offer them- selves.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1471
(This palankin) was adorned with pictures of wolves, bulls, horses, men, dolphins, birds, monkeys, elephants, antelopes, jarabhas 2 , yacks, tigers, lions, creeping plants, and a train of couples of Vidyddharas ; it had a halo of thousands of rays ; it was decorated with thousands of brilliant glittering rupees ; its lustre was mild and bright ; the eyes could not bear its light; it shone with heaps and masses of pearls ; it was hung with strings and ribbons, and with golden excellent necklaces, ex- tremely beautiful ; it was embellished with designs of lotuses and many other plants ; its cupola was adorned with many precious stones of five colours, with bells and flags ; it was conspicuous, lovely, beautiful, splendid, magnificent (21)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1805
In that night in which the Venerable Ascetic MahAvtra died, &c. (all down to) freed from all pains, the eighteen confederate kings of Kjtri and Kprala, the nine MpHaHs and r""* TJA^ayig*, on the day of new moon, instituted an illumination 2 on the Poshadha, which was a fasting day ; for they said : ' Since the light of intelligence is gone, let us make an illumination of material matter!' (128)