Jaina Sutras, Part I: Acaranga and Kalpa Sutra (SBE XXII)

Jaina Sutras

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THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST TRANSLATED BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS AND EDITED BY F. MAX MULLER VOL. XXII AT THE CLARENDON PRESS [A// rights reserved'] GAINA SOTRAS TRANSLATED FROM PRAKRIT BY HERMANN ^JACOBI PART I THE A^ARANGA SUTRA THE KALPA SUTRA AT THE CLARENDON PRESS [ All righls reserved ] 3L /o/o CONTENTS. w nS PAGE Introduction .ix A^ArAnga sCtra. FIRST BOOK. Lecture 1. Knowledge of the Weapon I » 2. Conquest of the World 15 yy Hot and Cold .... 28 yy Righteousness .... yy Essence of the World . yy 6. Cleaning ..... yy Liberation ..... yy 8. The Pillow of Righteousness 79 SECOND BOOK. First Part. Lecture 1 . Begging of Food 88 yy 2. Begging for a Couch yy Walking ..... yy Modes of Speech yy 6. Begging of Clothes . yy 6. Begging for a Bowl . yy Regulation of Possession . Second Part. Lecture 8. yy yy yy yy yy yy vm CONTENTS. Third Part. PAGE Lecture 15 . The Clauses . . . . . .189 Fourth Part. Lecture 16 . The Liberation . . . . .211 KALPA sOTRA. Lives of the (tinas Life of MahdvJra Lecture 1. Life of Parjva Life of Arish/anemi Epochs of the intermediate Life of i?fshabha List of the Sthaviras Rules for Yatis . Index Tirthakaras Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East . 321-324 INTRODUCTION. The origin and development of the C'aina sect is a subject on which some scholars still think it safe to speak with a sceptical caution, though this seems little warranted by the present state of the whole question ; for a large and ancient literature has been made accessible, and furnishes ample materials for the early history of the sect to all who are willing to collect them. Nor is the nature of these materials such as to make us distrust them. We know that the sacred books of the 6'ainas are old, avowedly older than the Sanskrit literature which we are accus¬ tomed to call classical. Regarding their antiquity, many of

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