Jaina Sutras 02 Uttaradhyayan Sutra and Sutrakritang Sutra

SR No.: 011060
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Max Muller
Total Pages: 500
Language: English
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LECTURE xv.
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properties of buildings, from changes in the body, from the meaning of the cries (of animals)—he is a true monk. (7)
Spells, roots, every kind of medical treatment, emetics, purgatives, fumigation, anointing of the eye, and bathing, the patient's lamentation, and his consolation-he who abstains from all these things, is a true monk. (8)
He who does not praise, or pay attention to, the warriors, Ugras 2, princes, Brâhmanas, Bhôgas, and artists of all sorts, who abstains from this, he is a true monk. (9)
He who does not, for earthly gain, improve his acquaintance with householders, with whom he fell in as a monk, or was in friendly relation before that time, he is a true monk. (10)
A Nirgrantha is forbidden to take from householders, if they do not give it themselves, bed, lodging,
A conjectural rendering of vigaya, which cannot be taken in its ordinary meaning 'victory. The commentary explains it subhâsubhanirûpanâbhyâsah.-Notice the absence of astrology from the above list of prophetical arts practised by strolling friars apparently to insinuate themselves into the good graces of laymen and women. If Greek nativity had already risen to importance, it certainly would have been mentioned. For it has ever since held a firm hold on the Hindu mind. This remark also applies to XX, 45. But in Sûtrakritânga I, 12, 9, astrology (sam vakkhara) is mentioned; it is, however, the ancient astrology of the Hindus, not the Greek one.
* The Ugras and Bhôgas were Kshattriyas. The former were, according to the Gainas, descendants of those whom Rishabha, the first Tîrthakara, appointed to the office of kôtwals or prefects of towns, while the Bhôgas were descendants from those whom Rishabha acknowledged as persons deserving of honour. Comp. Hoernle, Uvâsaga Dasão, Appendix, p. 58, and my edition of the Kalpa Sûtra, p. 103, note on § 18.