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The Uttaradhyayanasūtra

1922

In fact we know that the dtivetda accounted not only for the Jain doctrine but also for that of the Ajivika's i. e. the followers of Gosala Makhaliputta the rival of Mahavira and of the Thrasiya (= Trairtigika) the followers of Chaluya Rohagutta 1 from whom the Vaigesikphilosophers are said by the Jains to draw their origin 2. Now Chaluya Rohagutta was the leader of the sixth schism [...] Introduction 2I 4 and the Nandi according to which the piirea's (or the dWiväda) explained the doctrine of the Ajivika's in connection with that of the Jains themselves; and on the other the Bhagavati tells us that Gosala took his tenets from a certain portion of the puma's. [...] The clvti'viula belonged to the nineteenth year in the study of the sacred texts 1 and this is in reality the last year as the twentieth seems to have been occupied with a sort of reptitional recitation of the whole of the sacred lore. [...] Proably also the sacred scriptures were interpreted in different ways in the different gcuja's and.1.i/c/ta's of the Svetambara community; and the existence at an early date of some of these sections of the church is put beyond doubt by the coincidence between the sthavireivali of the Kalpasutra and the votive inscriptions excavated at Mathura 1. That the existing Jain commentaries are as a wh [...] The above considerations have throughout been made on the basis of the assumption that the Jain canon even in its present shape represents for the most part a very old set of writings the largest or at least the most important part of which goes back to the times of the Council of Pataliputra the age of Bhadrabahu and SthUlabhadra.
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Frontmatter
1-4 Jarl Charpentier view
Preface
5-8 Jarl Charpentier view
Introduction
9-66 Jarl Charpentier view
Article
67-274 Jarl Charpentier view
Commentary
275-409 Jarl Charpentier view

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