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abode according adorable ascetic Mahávíra adorned animals Arhat ascetic hero asoka beloved Bhadrapad body Brahmans Buddhists bull called celestial Chaitya Charitra chief cloth colour commentator common Prákrit Devanandi dialects Digambara Ditto divine elephant emancipation fast female ascetics festival five senses flowers four fourteen garland Gautama glad and delighted gods gold grammarian Gujarathi heaven Hindus hundred India Indra Institute interpreters of dreams Jain Jain religion jewels Jina Kalpa Sútra kinds King Siddhártha knowledge Kodala Kshatriya Kundagráma language living lord lotus Lotus Lake lucky Mágadhí male mind month moon mother Muhúrta night obtained original ornaments Pápa Paryúshana passions pearls perfect performed possessed Pratikramana proper Puráns radiance religious Rishabha Rishabha Datta royal sacred sages Sakko Sakra Sanskrit season shewing sleep Southern Pandit superior sweet-smelling things Tirthankars tongue translation Triśalá Vararuchi Veda venerable ascetic Mahávíra victory víra womb word worship
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Page 127 - Jainas not only affirm that there is such a state, but they define the size of the emancipated souls, the place where they live, their tangible qualities, the duration of their existence, the distance at which they are from one another, their parts, natures, and numbers. Final emancipation is only obtained ' in the state of manhood (not in that of a good demon or brute), while in possession of five senses, while possessing a body capable of voluntary motion, in a condition of possibility, while possessing...
Page iii - The KALPA SUTRA, AND NAVA TATVA. Two Works illustrative of the Jain Religion and Philosophy. Translated from the MAGHADI.
Page xxii - The numbers and power of these sectarians are little known to Europeans, who take it for granted they 1 " The practical part of the Jain religion consists in the performance of five duties and the avoidance of five sins. " The duties are — 1. Mercy to all animated heings ; 2.
Page 92 - Poshadha, which was a fasting day ; for they said : 'since the light of intelligence is gone, let us make an illumination of material...
Page 99 - He was really a great pioneer in the history of human greatness. His great glory lies in the fact that he first taught men the Jain faith. He is said to be 500 poles in stature and he is believed to have lived for 84,00,000 purva* years of which he spent one lakh of purva as an ascetic.
Page 127 - The space occupied by each of the perfect is boundless, and increases according to any one's desire. The term in which they remain in this state is also infinite. Their parts are innumerable. There is no returning again to a worldly state, and no interruption to their bliss.
Page xix - the Unknown," Jainism teaches, says Dr Stevenson, that " the world — consisting of mind or intellect and matter, has existed from all eternity, undergoing an infinite number of revolutions produced by the inherent physical and intellectual powers of nature, without the intervention of any eternal Deity — no such Being distinct from the world having any existence, though certain of the world's elements when properly developed obtain deification.
Page xvii - Christian era, all shades of opinion and practices were tolerated : —" The broachers of new theories and the introducers of new rites did not revile the established religion, and the adherents of the old vedic system of elemental worship looked on the new notions as speculations they could not comprehend, and the new austerities as the exercise of a self-denial they could not reach, rather than as the introduction of heresy and schism.
Page 136 - Kshatriya." something imperial, were there reason to suppose that it had acquired any extensive currency. In a grant quoted by Mr. Fergusson,1 in his Essay on Indian Chronology, from the Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, the following...
Page 126 - In reference to it, the Jainas not only affirm that there is such a state, but they define the size of the emancipated souls, the place where they live, their tangible qualities, the duration of their existence, the distance at which they are from one another, their parts, natures, and numbers. Final emancipation is only obtained