Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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The Sacred Books of the East: Gaina Sutras, pt. 1
Author: Jaina Sutras
Author: Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distri
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Jaina Sutras (Complete)
Author: Hermann JacobiPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465578226
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1001
Book Description
The origin and development of the Gaina 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 Gainas are old, avowedly older than the Sanskrit literature which we are accustomed to call classical. Regarding their antiquity, many of those books can vie with the oldest books of the northern Buddhists. As the latter works have successfully been used as materials for the history of Buddha and Buddhism, we can find no reason why we should distrust the sacred books of the Gainas as an authentic source of their history. If they were full of contradictory statements, or the dates contained in them would lead to contradictory conclusions, we should be justified in viewing all theories based on such materials with suspicion. But the character of the Gaina literature differs little in this respect also from the Buddhistical, at least from that of the northern Buddhists. How is it then that so many writers are inclined to accord a different age and origin to the Gaina sect from what can be deduced from their own literature? The obvious reason is the similarity, real or apparent, which European scholars have discovered between Gainism and Buddhism. Two sects which have so much in common could not, it was thought, have been independent from each other, but one sect must needs have grown out of, or branched off from the other. This â priori opinion has prejudiced the discernment of many critics, and still does so. In the following pages I shall try to destroy this prejudice, and to vindicate that authority and credit of the sacred books of the Gainas to which they are entitled. We begin our discussion with an inquiry about Mahâvîra, the founder or, at least, the last prophet of the Gaina church. It will be seen that enough is known of him to invalidate the suspicion that he is a sort of mystical person, invented or set up by a younger sect some centuries after the pretended age of their assumed founder. The Gainas, both Svetâmbaras and Digambaras, state that Mahâvîra was the son of king Siddhârtha of Kundapura or Kundagrâma. They would have us believe that Kundagrâma was a large town, and Siddhârtha a powerful monarch. But they have misrepresented the matter in overrating the real state of things, just as the Buddhists did with regard to Kapilavastu and Suddhodana. For Kundagrâma is called in the Âkârâṅga Sûtra a samnivesa, a term which the commentator interprets as denoting a halting-place of caravans or processions.
Jaina Sutras
Author: F. Max MullerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700715381
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia. The works have been translated by leading authorities in their field.
The Vedanta-sutras
Author: BādarāyaṇaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy, Hindu
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Sacred Books of the East
Author: F. Max MullerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700706006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This is a subset of the Sacred Books of the East Series which includes translations of all the most important works of the seven non-Christian religions which have exercised a profound influence on the civilizations of the continent of Asia.
The Asiatic Quarterly Review
Author: The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
The Sacred Books of the East
Author: The Sacred Books of the East
Author: Friedrich Max MüllerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description