Prolegomena to Prakritica et Jainica

SR No.: 011088
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Total Pages: 248
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA
This doctrine is also called Lokāyata-vāda. Tajjivataccharīra-vāda held practically the same view with Nāstika-vāda only with this difference that while the latter deny altogether the existence of the soul the former admit it, but the logical end of both the views would be exactly the same.
VI. BUDDHISM A heretic says in connection with the use of water for various purposes that it is justified on the ground of his having permission to drink it or take it for toilet purposes. 79 Šilānka takes these heretics to be Buddhists. This can be accepted without objection for we know that Buddha declared that no sin was committed by drinking water and he permitted bath and washing to his ascetic disciples. 80
The Nirgranthas looked upon the Ājiviyas as their worst opponents but if facts are considered they suffered most at the hand of the Buddhists in later times. Buddha was a junior contemporary of Mahāvīra, and had therefore greater need and occasion for counteracting and criticising the creed of the latter than Mahāvīra had of fighting with the doctrines of a junior. The rivalry of the two sects grew stronger after Mahāvīra's death. These facts account to some extent for the comparatively scantier mention and criticism of Buddhistic doctrines in the literature of the Jainas than what would normally be expected of the two chief sects of the time.
With regard to the suffering of cold by renouncing clothes and fire some heretical monks, are reported to say that they would put on more clothes and by kindling a fire they would be able to bear the very painful influence of the cold.81 This may be regarded as applying to me
73. Ācār. S. I.i.3.7. 80. Cf. Mahāvagga 1.25.12 5.13.7 81. Acār. S. I.vii.2.14.