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The Indian Historical Quarterly June 1927

1927

In Kaakacarya's first list quoted by Utpala for explaining Varahamihira's list in his Brhajjataka the Raktapata as a class of ascetics is distingushed from the Tapasika the Kapalika the Ekadancll the Yati the Caraka and the Ksapa4aka.2 In Varahamihira's own list the Ajivika is distinguished from the g5kya (Buddhist) the Bhiksu the Vrddhagravaka the Caraka the Nirgrantha (Jaina) and the [...] MASKART AS AN EPITHET OF GOCALA 245 to another reading with the Parivrajaka or Yati) the Vrddhgravaka with the Kapalika the Caraka with the Cakradhara the Nirgrantha with the Nagna Ksapgtaka and the Vanysiana with the Tapasvi (Tapasa).1 8iIrtaika in his commentary on the Sutrakrtauga represents the Ekadap.di or Single-staff Indian ascetic as an opponent of the Jaina thinker and ascribes [...] The Paribbajaka is the (clothed) 'ascetic belonging to the category of the Parivrajaka and excluding the Buddhist monk and the Buddhist novice."3 The plain meaning of this passage is that the Acelaka A.jivaka is no less a Parivrajaka than the Parivrajaka strictly so called the difference between them being that one is naked and the other is clothed. [...] The four grades of ascetics may be shown to represent the four planes of experience or states of consciousness which are enumerated in some of the Upanisads as the Jagrat (Waking)„ the Svapna (Dreaming) the Susupti (Sleeping) and the Turiya (Fourth Sound-sleep) the Turiyatita and Avadhlita being the natural culmination of the Turiya. [...] The proposed identification can be established by the fact that in the Buddhist illustration of the six abhijätis the 2i.jivika is placed in the category of the 0 gukla (White) and the Paramahamsa Parivrajaka as may be inferred from his description in the Paramahamsa-Parvfajaka-Upanisad is gukladhyanaparetycop given to medittion on the nature of pure soul on reaching the Turiy5tita sta
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214
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Maskari as an Epithet of Gosala
235-261 B.M. Barua view
Vijayanagara in Bengal Tradition
261-263 Rames Basu view
The Development of Buddhist Art in South India
264-272 Devaprasad Ghosh view
Origin and Development of Dūtakāvya Literature in Sanskrit
273-297 Chintaharan Chakravarti view
Origins of Hindu Iconism
298-306 S.V. Venkateswara view
Pre-Upanisadic Teachers of Brahma-vidya
307-314 Umesh Bhattacharjee view
The Evolution of the State
315-335 Balakrishna view
The Kalinga Edict
336-355 Manindra Bose view
The Origin and Development of Numerals
356-375 Sukumar Das view
The Gaudī Rīti in Theory and Practice
376-394 Sivaprasad Bhattacharya view
A note on the Avantisundari-kathā in relation to Bhāravi and Dandin
395-403 S.K. De view
Where did Prince Vijaya Come from?
403-408 Shivnath Sengar view
“Śri Magaradhvaja Yogi 700”
408-411 Hiralal view
The Malla Era
412-412 S.K. De view
Mahāyāna and Hinayāna Works known to Nāgārjuna
412-417 R. Kimura view
Rohitagiri in the Plate of Śri Candra
418-418 N.K. Bhattasali view
The Tibetan Translation of the Sadhanamala : a Rejoinder
419-428 Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya view
“Outlines of the History of Buddhism in Indo-China.”
429-429 R.C. Majumdar view
Recent Progress in Archaeology in South India and the Deccan
429-432 C.S. Srinivasachari view
Imprecatory Verses in Copper-plate Grant
432-432 Batakrishna Ghosh view
Reviews
433-437 unknown view
Select Contents of Oriental Journals
438-439 unknown view
Bibliographical Notes
440-441 unknown view

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