The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris JastrowHopkins, Edward Washburn
Religion
The Religions of India: Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
Hopkins, Edward Washburn
India -- Religion
[Footnote 18: _Loc. cit_. III. 37-38. The evening and night
are not times to eat, and for the same reason "The Gods eat
in the morning, the Seers at noon, the Fathers in the
afternoon, the devils at twilight and night" (_ib_. 58). For
at night one might eat a a living thing by mistake.]
[Footnote 19: _Loc. cit_. II. 27.]
[Footnote 20: The pun _m[=a][.m]sa, "Me eat_ will be
hereafter whose _meat_ I eat in this life" (Lanman), shows
that Jain and Brahman believed in a hell where the injured
avenged themselves (Manu, V. 55; HYÇ. III. 26), just as is
related in the Bhrigu story (above).]
[Footnote 21: By intuition or instruction.]
[Footnote 22: _Loc. cit_. I. 15 ff.]
[Footnote 23: _Loc. cit_. 121 ff. Wilson, _Essays_, I. 319,
gives a description of the simple Jain ritual.]
[Footnote 24: Who says "may be."]
[Footnote 25: Mukunda.]
[Footnote 26: This 'keeping _vasso_' is also a Brahmanic
custom, as Bühler has pointed out. But it is said somewhere
that at that season the roads are impossible, so that there
is not so much a conscious copying as a physical necessity
in keeping _vasso_; perhaps also a moral touch, owing to the
increase of life and danger of killing.]
[Footnote 27: In the lives of the Jinas it is said that
Jñ[=a]triputra's (N[=a]taputta's) parents worshipped the
'people's favorite,' P[=a]rçva, and were followers of the
Çramanas (ascetics). In the same work (which contains
nothing further for our purpose) it is said that Arhats,
Cakravarts, Baladevas, and Vasudevas, present, past, and
future, are aristocrats, born in noble families. The
heresies and sectaries certainly claim as much.]
[Footnote 28: [=A]c[=a]r[=a]nga S. ii. 15. We give Jacobi's
translation, as in the verses already cited from this work.]
[Footnote 29: Acting, commanding, consenting, past, present,
or future (Jacobi).]
[Footnote 30: SBE. xxii. Introd. p. xxiv.]
[Footnote 31: JRAS. xx. 279.]
[Footnote 32: See Bühler, the last volume of the
_Epigraphica Indica_, and his other articles in the WZKM. v.
59, 175. Jeypur, according to Williams, is the stronghold of
the Digambara Jains. Compare Thomas, JRAS. ix. 155, _Early
Faith of Açoka_.]
[Footnote 33: The redaction of the Jain canon took place,
according to tradition, in 454 or 467 A.D. (possibly 527).
"The origin of the extant Jaina literature cannot be placed
earlier than about 300 B.C." (Jacobi, Introduction to _Jain
S[=u]tras_, pp. xxxvii, xliii). The present Angas
('divisions') were preceded by P[=u]rvas, of which there are
said to have been at first fourteen. On the number of the
scriptures see Weber, _loc. cit_.]
[Footnote 34: Williams, _loc. cit._ The prayer-formula is:
'Reverence to Arhats, saints, teachers, subteachers, and all
good men.']
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