Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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for the author of this book was not at all aware of the Burmese tradition till he reached the conclusion.
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The author came to know about the Burm: se tradition only after the whole book had already been published in the form of articles in the journals like Jaine Bharali (273), Anekanta (274), etc.
Well, the four evidences cited above have corrome Pated our conclusion in the same way as the fourway torrs from different directions would confirm th: reality ..the pole by arriving at the sam polar point.
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Notes on Chapter Four
Scholars like F'rof. Lassen regarded Buddha ani Mahavira as identical, because the Jain and Buddhist traditions are almost identical on some points (cf. the Gaina Sutras, Sacred Books of the East, Vol. XXII, introduction, p. XIX).
According to the Jains, the chief disciple of their Tirthankara Mahavira was called Gautma Svami (Ward's Hindus II p. 247, and Colebrooke's Essays, Vol. II p. 279) or Gautama Indrabhuti, whose identity with Gautama Budana was suggested both by Dr. Hamilton and Major Delamaine and was accepted by Colebrooke.
"This is what Golebrooke says in his Essays, Vol. II p. 276. In the Kalpa Sutra and in other books of the Jains, the first of Mahavira's disciples is mentioned under the name of Indrabhuti, but in the inscriptions under that of Gautams Svami. The names of the other ten precisely agree, whence it is to be concluded that Gautama, the first one of the first list, is the same with Indrabhuti, the first of the second list. It is certainly probable, as remarked by Dr. Hamilton and Major Delamine, that the Gautams of the Jains and the Gautama of the Buddhists is the same personage. Two out of eleven disciples of Mahavira survived him, viz. Sudharma and Gautama Svami. Sudharma's spiritual successors are the Jain priests, whereas the Gautama's followers are the Buddhists".