Jaina Sutras Part I
Hermann Jacobi (translator)
2,128 passages indexed from Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra (Hermann Jacobi (translator)) — Page 7 of 43
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Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 33
For Ku//</agrdma is called in the A&rnga Sfttra a sa;//nivesa, a term which the commentator interprets as denoting a halting-place of caravans or processions.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1645
10. Then she saw a lake, called Lotus Lake, adorned with water lilies. Its yellow water was perfumed by lotuses opening in the rays of the morn- ing sun ; it abounded with swarms of aquatic animals, and fed fishes. It was large, and seemed to burn through the wide-spreading, glorious beauty of all kinds of lotu ses 3 . I ts shape and beauty were pleasing. The lotuses in it were licked by whole swarms of gay bees and mad drones. Pairs of swans, cranes, A^akra- vkas, ducks, Indian cranes, and many other lusty birds resorted to its waters, and on the leaves of its lotuses sparkled water-drops like pearls 4 . It was a sight, pleasing to the heart and the eye. (42)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1349
against it ; changing the position of the body, but not moving about a little, I shall stand there. This is the second rule. (3)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 113
The third point of resemblance between both sects, the stress which is laid on the ahi;;/sa or not killing of living beings, will be treated more fully in the sequel. For this reason I quickly pass over to Professor Lassen's fourth argument, viz. that the Buddhists and Gainas measure the history of the World by those enormous periods of time which bewilder and awe even the most imaginative fancy.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1361
A monk or a nun should not ease nature on a ground which for their sake has been prepared or caused to be prepared (by the householder), or has been occupied by main force, or strewn with grass, or levelled, or smeared (with cowdung), or smoothed, or perfumed. (5)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 835
WHEN a male or a female mendicant, having entered the abode of a householder with the inten- tion of collecting alms, recognises 3 food, drink, dainties, and spices as affected by, or mixed up with, living beings, mildew, seeds or sprouts, or wet with water, or covered with dust either in the hand or the pot of another 4 they should not, even if they can get it, accept of such food, thinking that it is impure and unacceptable 6 . ( i )
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 870
This certainly is the whole duty, &c. (see end of lesson i).
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 727
Though these animals destroy the body, he should not stir from his position.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 569
For a monk who has not yet reached discrimina- tion 1 , it is bad going and difficult proceeding when he wanders (alone) from village to village. Some men (when going wrong) will become angry when ex- horted with speech. And a man with wary pride is embarrassed with great delusion 2 , (i) There are many obstacles which are very difficult to overcome for the ignorant and the blinded. Let that not be your case ! That is the doctrine of "the clever one (Mahavira). Adopting the (/rya's) views, imi- tating his indifference (for the outer world), making him the guide and adviser (in all one's matters), sharing his abode, living carefully, acting according to his mind, examining one's way 3 , not coming too near (the &&rya), minding living beings, one should go (on one's business). (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 2014
The same rule applies if a monk wants to undergo some medical cure. (49) Also if he wants to do some exalted penance. (50) Also if he intends, after the last mortification of the flesh which is to end in death, to wait for his last hour without desiring it, in total abstinence from food and drink or in remaining motionless ; also if he wants to go out or to enter, to eat food, &c., to ease nature, to learn his daily lesson, to keep religious vigils he is not allowed to do it without asking leave. (51)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1278
If these thieves say: 'O long-lived ,SramaaI bring us your robe, give it, deliver it!' he should not give or deliver it. He should act in such cases (as prescribed in II, 3, 3, i$ and 16).
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 234
added as a gloss, or be incorporated even in the text, by those who transmitted it either in writing or in instructing their pupils. But an argument of more weight is the fact that in the SiddhAnta we find no traces of Greek astro- nomy. In fact the Gaina astronomy is a system of incre- dible absurdity, which would have been impossible, if its author had had the least knowledge of the Greek science. As the latter appears to have been introduced in India about the third or fourth century A. D., it follows that the sacred books of the Gainas were composed before that time.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 321
* Orambftsvamin was the disciple of Sudharman, one of the eleven chief disciples (gawadhara) of MaMvira.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 530
1 Nikkhittada/d, literally, those who have laid down the rod.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1821
The Venerable Ascetic Mahdvlra instituted two epochs in his capacity of a Maker of an end : the epoch relating to generations, and the epoch relat- ing to psychical condition ; in the third generation ended the former epoch, and in the fourth year of his Kevaliship the latter. (i46) 1
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 364
1 The plants know the seasons, for they sprout at the proper time, the Asoka buds and blooms when touched by the foot of a well-attired girl, and the Vakula when watered with wine; the seed grows always upwards : all this would not happen if the plants had no knowledge of the circumstances about them. Such is the reasoning of the commentators.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1473
In the middle of the palankin (was) a costly throne covered with a divine cloth, precious stones and silver, with a footstool, for the best of inas. viii.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 954
The same holds good with regard to raw berries which, &c., as those of Kapittha 7 , pomegranate, or Pippala. (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1287
For the avoidance of these occasions to sin there are four rules for begging a bowl to be known by the mendicants.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1639
people when absent from their sweethearts, the large, glorious, wandering headmark of the celestial sphere beloved in heart and soul by Rohi#t l . Such was the glorious, beautiful, resplendent full moon which the queen saw, (38)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 829
Moist or dry or cold food, old beans, old pap; or bad grain, whether he did or did not get such food, he was rich (in control). (13)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 89
All the disciples of Buddha bear other names than those of Mahclvira. To finish this enumeration of differences, Buddha died in Kusinagara, whereas Mahavira died in P4p&, avowedly before the former.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 63
As the latter was the maternal~ur7cle of Mafravira, Ajrataratru, by attacking this patron of the ainas, lost in some degree their sympathy. Now he resolved on siding with their rivals, the Buddhists, whom he formerly had persecuted as friends of his father's, whom, as has been said above, he finally put to death. We know that A^-atajratru succccdod_jn conqyjaing^auali, and that hejaid the foundation of the empire of th c_Nandas a nd Mauryas.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1846
The Arhat Prrva, the people's favourite, had eight Gaas and eight Ga;zadharas (enumerated in a *Sloka) :
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1859
vi^aya, all down to) therefore shall the name of our boy be Arish/anemi l .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1545
The creatures attain only a temporary residence (in one of the four states of being) ; hearing this supreme truth (i.e. the doctrine of the Tlrthakara's) one should meditate upon it. The wise man should free himself from the family bonds ; fearless should he give up acts and attachments, (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 21
This point of view was warmly endorsed by the Indian National Academy of Letters (Sahitya Akademi), and the Indian National Commission for Unesco.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1533
If a creature with ears hears agreeable and dis- agreeable sounds, it should not be attached to, nor delighted with, nor. desiring of, nor infatuated by,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1952
so the Sthaviras have done. (5) As they have done, so do the Nirgrantha .Srama/zas of the present time. (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1091
If a monk or a nun beg for a couch such as it is spread, either on the ground or on a wooden plank, they may use it if they get it ; if not, they
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 524
1 The passage in brackets is introduced by the words p&Man- taram v&, * various reading/ It occurs in <all MSS. I have consulted, and is commented upon by the commentaries as belonging to the text
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1040
Hence it has been said to the mendicant, &c. (see above). (3)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 12
Bungalow Road, Jawahar Nagar, DeIhi-6 Nepali Khapra, Varanasi U. P. Bankipur, Patna (Bihar)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1267
A monk or a nun wanting, for the sake of alms, to enter the abode of a householder, should do so outfitted with all their clothes ; in the same manner they should go to the out-of-door place for religious practices or study, or should wander from village to village.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 391
yet deteriorated, while all these perceptions are not yet deteriorated, man should prosecute l the real end of his soul 2 . Thus I say. (5)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 211
But we are not obliged to rely on such generalities in order to decide the question at issue with regard to the ainas, for they were so far from having only dim notions of their own doctrines that they pronounced as founders of schisms those who differed from the great bulk of the faithful in comparatively unimportant details of belief. This fact is proved by the tradition about the seven sects of the SVet&mbaras made known by Dr. Leumann 1 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1036
that he should not use, for religious postures, &c., a lodging used by the householder, (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 852
a Purisa*0taraka</a. I have rendered this word according to the interpretation of the commentators ; but in a similar passage, 8, 3, 2 and 3, they understand the word to mean appropriated by another person.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1489
When the Venerable Ascetic Mahvlra had adopted tlie holy- conduct which produced that state of soul in which the reward of former actions is temporarily counteracted, he reached the know- ledge called Mana^pary&ya 1 , by which he knew the thoughts of all sentient beings, with five organs, which are not defective, and possess a developed intellect, (living) in the two and a half continents and the two oceans. Then he formed the following resolution : I shall for twelve years neglect my body and abandon the care of it ; I shall with equani- mity bear, undergo, and suffer all calamities arising from divine powers, men or animals 2 . (23)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1732
After the Bhavanapati, Vyantara, Gyotishka, and Vaimanika gods had celebrated the feast of the inauguration of the Ttrthakara's birthday, the Ksha- triya Siddhdrtha called, at the break of the morning, together the town policemen and addressed them thus : (99)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 509
He who knows 3 wrath, knows pride ; he who knows pride, knows deceit ; he who knows deceit, knows greed; he \i(ho knows greed, knows love; he who knows love, knows hate ; he who knows hate, knows delusion ; he who knows delusion, knows conception ; he who knows conception, knows birth ; he who knows birth, knows death ; he who knows death, knows hell ; he who knows hell, knows animal exist- ence ; he who knows animal existence, knows pain.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 648
Therefore look at worldliness, ye men, fettered in fetters !
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 631
The disciples ,are thus regularly instructed, day and night, by the knowledge-endowed great heroes, receiving knowledge from them. Some, being se- duced from the calmness of the mind, adopt rough manners. Some, living in chastity, dispute the authority (of the teacher), others hear and under- stand his words ; they intend to lead a godly life, but having left the world 2 , they are not qualified (for a religious life). Others, being incensed by lusts,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1579
In this way he repeatedly expressed his extreme satisfaction. (11)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1345
4 Sdhammiya, sfidharmika. His dominion is vasaty^di, his domicile which extends for a Ycg^ana and a quarter. When he takes possession (parigraha) of it, he must ask permission of the possessors.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1628
4. Then she, with the face of the full moon, saw the goddess of famous beauty, 6rt, on the top of Mount Himavat, reposing on a lotus in the lotus lake, anointed with the water from the strong and large trunks of the guardian elephants. She sat on a lofty throne. Her firmly placed feet resembled golden tortoises, and her dyed, fleshy, convex, thin, red, smooth nails were set in swelling muscles 2 . Her hands and feet were like the leaves of the lotus, and her fingers and toes soft and excellent; her round and well-formed legs were adorned with the Kuru- vindivarta 3 , and her knees with dimples. -Her fleshy thighs resembled the proboscis of an excellent ele- phant, and her lovely broad hips were encircled by a golden zone. Her large and beautiful belly was
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1116
unconverted people, people who rise or eat at an improper time, should, if there be some other place for walking about or friendly districts, not choose the former road for their voyage. (8)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 551
these (living bejtigs). Ceasing from them, making an end of them, he perceives : this is a favourable opportunity 1 ; he who searches for 2 the right moment for this body (should never be careless). This is the road taught by the noble ones, (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 575
When strongly vexed by the influence of the senses, he should eat bad food, mortify himself, stand upright, wander from village to village, take no food at all, withdraw his mind from women. First troubles, then pleasures ; first pleasures, then troubles 4 : thus they are the cause of quarrels. Con- sidering this and well understanding it, one should teach oneself not to cultivate (sensuality). Thus I say. He should not speak of women, nor look at them, nor converse with them, nor claim them as his own, nor do their work. Careful in his speech and
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 863
When a monk or a nun knows that at a distance of more than half a yo^ana a festive entertainment 2 is going on, they should not resolve to go there for the sake of the festive entertainment. (5)