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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merits and demerits. His bones become white. The offerings poured on his body turn into a shes. It is the fools who have suggested that offerings should be placed on dead-bodies. Those who believe in the āstikavāda are false; they are wholly in the wrong. After the body is dead, the learned persons as well as the fools are equally uprooted, both get lost. After their death, nothing remains of them."
Pakudha Kāccāyana: annyonya-vādi
Pa kudha Kāccāyana was an annyonyavadi (who believed in the indestructibility of elements). Said he,
"The seven elements nobody makes, nobody causes them to be made; nobody creates them, nobody causes them to be created. They are fixed, indestructible. and permanent. They neither move nor change. They do not torture one another, and they are unable to cause pleasure and plain to one another. These el ements are: earth, water, fire, air, pleasure, pain and soul. There is none to kill them, nor cause them to be killed; none to listen to them, nor make them listen, none to know them, none to describe them. If someone cuts one's throat, he does not kill his soul. It needs be understood that the weapon only pene - trates into the gap between these seven elements."
Sanjaya Velaţțhiputra: vikṣepa-vādi
Sanja ya Velaţthiputra was a vikṣepavadi (who had no set idea on anything). To quote him,
"If someone asks me if there is another life, and if it appears to me that there is one, then, I shall say, 'Yes, there is another life'. But, to me, this does not seem to be so. And it does not appear to me either that there is no life hereafter. I have no fixed idea as to whether there are celestial and infernal beings or not, whether good and bad deeds have their outcome and whether the soul exists after death."
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Nirgrantha Jñátaputra cãturyāma-samvara-vādi
Nirgrantha Jñätaputra (Mahāvira) was a cāturyāmasamvara-vadi (who believed in four checks on the influx of fresh karma-fetters). These four checks were as follows: