2,128 passages indexed from Jaina Sutras Part I: Akaranga Sutra & Kalpa Sutra (Hermann Jacobi (translator)) — Page 21 of 43
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 529
All the professors, conversant with pain, preach renunciation. Thus thoroughly knowing karman, observing the commandment, wise, unattached (to the world), recognising thy Self as one 2 , subdue the body, chastise thyself, weaken thyself: 'just as fire consumes old wood!' Thus with a composed mind, unattached, * unhesitatingly avoid wrath!' Con- sidering the shortness of life ' know pain, or what will come 3 ;' one shall feel the several feelings; and perceive the world suffering under them. (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1905
and Arya Bhadrabdhu of the Prd^lna gotra; 7* Arya Sthtilabhadra of the Gautama gotra; 8. i. Arya Mahdgiri of the Aildpatya gotra and
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 137
14. 'He shall enter a village only in order to beg/ The Gainas are not so strict in this respect, as they allow a monk to sleep in a village or town. However he must not stay too long 4 . Mahdvira did not stay longer than one night in a village or five nights in a town 5 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 614
But some who embrace 'the law, will practise it, being careful about its outward signs; not giving way to worldliness, but being firm. Knowing (and renouncing) all lust, a devout man becomes a great sage when he breaks all bonds, thinking : Nothing
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1843
The Arhat P&rrva, the people's favourite, for eighty-three days neglected his body, &c. (see 117, down to) animals. (158)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 675
in time exerts himself, is under no obligations; he proceeds securely (on the road to final liberation) after having cut off both (love and hate) 1 . (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1445
one to dress him, one to play with him, one to carry him ; being transferred from the lap of one nurse to that of another, he grew up on that beautiful ground, paved with mosaic of precious stones, like a Tsfam- paka 1 tree growing in the glen of a mountain. (13)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 220
1 It is possible, but not probable, that the date of the redaction fell sixty years later, 514 (527) A. D. ; see Kalpa SQtra, introduction, p. 15.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1420
One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Anka or Paryanka posture, wipes or rubs (the mendicant's) feet ; in this way the 1-18 should be repeated here. (19)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1903
The Venerable Ascetic Mahivlra was of the K&- jyapa gotra. His disciple was 2 :
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1247
After these words the householder might never- theless offer the clothes after having wiped or rubbed them, &c. ; but the mendicant should not accept them, for they are impure and unaccept- able, (n)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1483
(22) The god VaLrrama^a, prostrating himself 2 , caught up the finery and ornaments of the Venerable Ascetic Mahcivira in a cloth of flamingo-pattern. Mahvlra then plucked out with his right and left (hands) on the right and left (sides of his head) his hair in five handfuls. But 6akra, the leader and king of the gods, falling down before the feet of the Venerable Ascetic Mahdvlra, caught up the hair in a cup of diamond, and requesting his permission, brought them to the Milk Ocean.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1135
s P&ea = pdtrea. The Guzerati commentator takes it for padena, foot.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1006
Now follows the fifth rule for begging food. A monk or a nun may accept food which is offered on a plate or a copper cup or any vessel, if the moisture on the hands of the giver is almost dried up; for, &c. That is the fifth rule for begging food. (7)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1615
1 The contents of 14-28 are contained in AHrdnga Sfttra II, 15. 4- )
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1763
( Victory, victory to thee, gladdener of the world ! Victory to thee, lucky one I Luck to thee !
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 400
1 Frequently (I have been born) in a high family, frequently in a low one ; I am not mean, nor noble, nor do I desire (social preferment)/ Thus reflect- ing, who would brag about his family or about his glory, or for what should he long ? (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1277
If the road of a monk or a nun on the pilgrimage lies through a forest in which, as they know, there stroll bands of many thieves desirous of their clothes, they should not from fear of them, and to save their clothes, leave the road or go into another road, &c. (all as in 6). (7)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 624
A sage who is well instructed in the law and leads a life of abstinence, is always a destroyer of the effects of works l . To a mendicant who is little clothed 2 and firm in control, it will not occur (to think) : My clothes are torn, I shall beg for (new) clothes ; I shall beg for thread ; I shall beg for a needle ; I shall mend (my clothes) ; I shall darn them ; I shall repair them ; I shall put them on ; I shall wrap myself in them, (i)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 451
Being indifferent against sounds (and the other) perceptions, detest the comfort of this life.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 759
For a year and a month he did not leave off his robe. Since that time the Venerable One, giving up his robe, was a naked, world-relinquishing, houseless (sage) 3 . (3)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 674
1 The scholiast says that there are three classes of the awakened : the Svayambuddha, the Pratyekabuddha, and the Buddhabodhita. The last only is treated of in the text,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 501
1 The gifted man 2 , following the law, sees well his true interest/ In a twofold way 3 , for the sake of life's splendour, honour and glory (some men exert themselves), wherein they go astray. The gifted 2 , touched by calamity, are not confounded. * Mind this ! the worthy one, in this worl$, gets out of the creation 4 / Thus I say. (5)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1258
A monk or a nun should not clean or wash his clothes in plentiful water, because they are not new. (17)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1887
Kma Sfitra, must therefore be older than 1307, the date of (jinapra- bhamuni's commentary on the Kalpa Sfttra.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 2122
VSmi, name of a queen, 271. Va^assai Vanaspati, 3 n 2. Va/ii^agrima, name, of a town,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 717
: it had those qualities which are required of a thing the mendicant may accept.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1379
A monk or a nun should not ease nature in woods of A^ana 1 , 6ana 2 , Dhitaki 3 , Ketaki 4 , Mango, A^oka, Punniga, or other such-like places which con- tain leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, or sprouts. (21)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 198
Even the theory that from time immemorial prophets (Buddhas or Tlrthakaras) have proclaimed the same dogmas and re- newed the sinking faith, has its Brahmanic counterpart in the Avatiras of Vishnu. Besides, such a theory is a necessary consequence both of the Buddhistical and Gaina creed.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1329
A monk or a nun might wish to go to a garlic field. They should ask permission in the manner described above. The monk or the nun might wish to chew or suck garlic. In that case the same rules as for eating mangoes apply also ; likewise if they wish to chew or suck the bulb or peel or stalk or seed of garlic 2 . (6)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 758
More than four months many sorts of living beings gathered on his body, crawled about it, and caused pain there. (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1365
A monk or a nun should not ease nature in a place where the householders or their sons have, do, or will put 1 by bulbs, roots, &c. (9)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 656
Everywhere 2 sins are admitted ; but to avoid them is called my distinction. For ye who live in a village or in the forest, or not in a village and not in the forest, know the law as it has been declared. * By the Brahman, the wise (Mahivira), three 3 vows have been enjoined/ Noble and tranquil men who are enlightened and exert themselves in these (pre- cepts), are called free from sinful acts. (4)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 73
Since that time he was recognised as omniscient, as a prophet of the Gainas, or a Tirthakara, and had the titles G*ina, Mahcivira, Sec., which were also given to S&kyamuni. The last thirty years of his life he passed in teaching his religious system and organising his order of ascetics, which, as we have seen above, was patronised or at least counte- nanced chiefly by those princes with whom he was related through his mother, viz. ^Te/aka, 6Yemka, andJKjftnika, the
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1173
Likewise, if asked about (transports of) corn, waggons, cars, &c. (see II, 3, 2, 16). (10)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 406
Having acquired it (i.e. wealth), employing bipeds and quadrupeds, gathering riches in the three ways 5 ,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1998
What is understood by small mildew ? Small mildew has been declared to be of five kinds : black, blue, &c. There is a kind of small mildew which has the same colour as the substance on which it grows. Monks, nuns, &c. (see 44, down to) inspect this. That is small mildew.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1695
The king Siddh^rtha saluted and honoured the interpreters of dreams, made them presents, and re- ceived them with respect. They sat down, one after the other, on the chairs of state which had been placed there before. (68) Then the Kshatriya Siddh&rtha placed his wife Tmal& behind the cur- tain, and taking flowers and fruits in his hands,
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 743
He should raise himself above (sinfulness), and bear all pains. (18)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 745
This is the highest law, exalted above the pre- ceding method :
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 887
A monk or a nun entering or leaving the out-of- door places for religious practices or study, should do so with the complete outfit. (7)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1762
courtiers, men carrying others on the back, heralds, and bell bearers. They praised and hymned him with these kind, pleasing, &c. (see 47, down to) sweet and soft words: (113)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 147
30. ' He shall not take parts of plants and trees except such as have become detached (spontaneously)/ The Gainas have the same precept, but they go still farther
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 17
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Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 691
When the thought occurs to a mendicant that through illness he is too weak, and, not able to beg from house to house and on his thus complaining a householder brings food, &c., obtained (without injuring life 3 ), and gives it him then he should, after deliberation, say 4 : O long-lived householder! it does not become me to eat or drink this 3 food, &c., or (accept) anything else of the same kind. (2)
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 323
Similarly, some know that their soul is born again and again, that it arrives in this or that direction, whatever direction that may be. (4) He believes in soul l , believes in the world 2 , believes in reward 3 , believes in action (acknowledged to be our own doing in such judgments as these) : ' I did it;' 'I shall cause another to do it ;' 'I shall allow another to do it 4 / In the world, these are all the causes of sin 5 , which must be compre- hended and renounced.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1003
1 Sa*wsa/Ma ; it would perhaps be more correct to translate this word, soiled with the food in question.
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 143
17. 'He shall restrain his speech, his eyes, (and) his actions/ This nearly agrees with the three Guptis of the Gainas, or the restraining of the mind, speech, and body 2 .
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 612
leave us!' (5) Consulting their own pleasure, in- dulging their passions, ' making a noise 1 , the parents cry: No man who leaves his parents is (fit to become) a flood-crossing sage ! (The ascetic) does not take refuge there (in his family) ; for what could attract him there ?
Jaina Sutras Part I, passage 1022
The Kevalin says : This is the reason : Making secretions he might stumble or fall; stumbling or falling he might hurt his hand, &c. (II, i, 7, i), or any other limb of his body, or kill, &c., all sorts of living beings. Hence it has been said to the men- dicant, &c., that he should use no above-ground lodging-place for religious postures, &c. (7)