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________________ 104 PROLEGOMENA TO PRAKRITICA et JAINICA msdvi sayyā prātarutthāya peyā, bhuktam madhye pānakam cāparāhne / drākşākhaņdam sarkarā cārdharitra mokşascānte Sākyaputreņa drstaḥ || A soft bed, drinks in the morning, dinner at midday, drinks in the afternoon, and grapes and sugar at night - these have been laid down by Sākhyaputra as leading to salvation. These are supposed to be drawn from works of the Buddhists themselves explaining their faith or from the writing of others professing to explain it. It is quite clear that as a matter of fact they are taken from the writings of hostile critics and from satires on the teachings of Buddha. Harşakula thinks that the verse in the text might refer to svatirthyas, some members of the same order as the speaker's, i.e., the Nirgranthas. The events of later days led the commentators, one feels constrained to say, to fasten every possible adverse criticism on to the Buddhists to make up, as it were, for the dearth of antiBuddhist statements in the texts. The present instance is a very strained attempt to drag in the Buddhists. Both in this verse as well as in another. 91 Harşakula is undecided about its exact application and names several possible alternatives. The truth probably is that the allusion was to a distinct view which held that like is produced by like and therefore mokşa being an agreeable thing is obtained by living an agreeable and comfortable life. This is the view held by the Tāntrikas.92 The Sātavādins also held the same view.93 91. Sut. S. I.üi.4.10 92. See, Cittavisuddhiprakaraņa attributed to Aryadeva, JASB, Ixvii, 1898, p. 175, and Subhāşitasamgraha, p. 37. I am indebted to Pandit Vidhushekhar Bhattacharya for these references. 93. This has been discussed later.
SR No.011088
Book TitleProlegomena to Prakritica et Jainica
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorSatyaranjan Banerjee
PublisherAsiatic Society
Publication Year
Total Pages248
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size17 MB
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