Contents
CONTENTS.
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| INTRODUCTION | |||
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| LECTURE | 1. | On discipline (especially for pupils) | |
| " | 2. | On troubles. (About the twenty-two things that cause trouble to monks) | |
| " | 3. | The four requisites (for the attainment of beatitude) | |
| " | 4. | Impurity. (Carefulness required for obtaining the end) | |
| " | 5. | Death against (and with) one's will | |
| " | 6. | The false ascetic. (Wrong conduct leads to perdition, right conduct to salvation) | |
| " | 7. | The parable of the ram, &c. (illustrative of the folly of the sinner who misses his chance of reaching a more exalted state of existence) | |
| " | 8. | Kapila's verses (in praise of good conduct) | |
| " | 9. | The Pravragyâ of king Nami. (A dialogue between him and Indra who advised him to retain the royalty) | |
| " | 10. | The leaf of the tree. (A sermon by Mahâvîra on the punishment of the sinner and the reward of the righteous) | |
| " | 11. | The very learned (monk; his virtues and his superiority) | |
| " | 12. | Harikêsa, (a Kândâla, turned monk; his victory over a Brahman, whom he converts) | |
| " | 13. | Kitra and Sambhûta. (A dialogue on the vanity of worldly pleasures) | |
| " | 14. | Ishukâra. (A legend, illustrating the excellence of a monastic life) | |
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| LECTURE | 15. | The true monk; (how he should conduct himself) | |
| " | 16. | The ten conditions of perfect chastity | |
| " | 17. | The bad Sramana; (what a monk should avoid) | |
| " | 18. | Sañgaya. (King S. turned monk; he preaches, that the state of a monk is preferable to that of a king; illustrations from Gaina history) | |
| " | 19. | The son of Mrigâ. (On the punishment in the hells) | |
| " | 20. | The great duty of the Nirgranthas. (A dialogue between king Srênika and a monk on the happiness obtained by righteousness. The bad monk is lost) | |
| " | 21. | Samudrapâla, (turned monk. On the duties of a monk) | |
| " | 22. | Rathanêmi. (The renunciation of Arishtanêmi; his wife Râgîmatî exhorts Rathanêmi) | |
| " | 23. | Kêsi and Gautama. (The followers of Pârsva are brought over to the church of Mahâvîra) | |
| " | 24. | The Samitis (and the Guptis) | |
| " | 25. | The true sacrifice. (Gayaghôsha, the monk, converts Vigayaghôsha, the Brahman) | |
| " | 26. | The correct behaviour (of monks during the several parts of day and night) | |
| " | 27. | The bad bullocks (compared to bad pupils by Garga) | |
| " | 28. | The road to final deliverance. (On the fundamental principles of Gainism) | |
| " | 29. | The exertion in righteousness. (On the seventy-three articles necessary for reaching perfection) | |
| " | 30. | The road of penance. (On external and internal austerities) | |
| " | 31. | Mode of life. (A list of articles of the Gaina faith according to the number of their subdivisions) | |
| " | 32. | The causes of carelessness; (what excites the passions and produces Karman) | |
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| LECTURE | 33. | The nature of Karman, (and the subdivisions of it) | |
| " | 34. | On Lêsyâ | |
| " | 35. | The houseless monk. (The chief duties of a monk). | |
| " | 36. | On living beings and things without life. (The contents of this Lecture are detailed in note 2, pp. 206, 207) | |
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| LECTURE | 1. | The doctrine. (On some heretical doctrines) | |
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| Chapter 1. (Materialists, v. 8; Vedântins, v. 9; other materialists, vv. 11, 12; Akriyâvâdins, v. 13; forerunners of the Vaisêshikas, v. 15; Bauddhas, v. 17; Gânayas, v. 18) | |
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| Chapter 2. (Fatalists, vv. 1-3; Agnostics, v. 17; Kriyâvâdins, v. 24; Buddhists, vv. 25-28, cf. p. 414) | |
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| Chapter 3. (Paurânikas,vv. 6-8; the followers of Gôsâla, vv. II, 12; Vainayikas, v. 14) | |
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| Chapter 4. (Some popular beliefs, vv. 6, 7. Conclusion) | |
| " | 2. | The destruction of Karman; (how to lead a holy life) | |
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| " | 3. | The knowledge of troubles | |
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| Chapter 1. (A monk encounters many difficulties) | |
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| Chapter 2. (He is tempted back to domestic life) | |
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| Chapter 3. (He easily desponds. The opinion refuted that a monk should not provide a sick brother with food) | |
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| LECTURE | 3. | Chapter 4. (Several objections removed) | |
| " | 4. | Knowledge of women | |
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| Chapter 1. (How women tempt a monk) | |
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| Chapter 2. (How they treat him afterwards) | |
| " | 5. | Description of the hells | |
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| " | 6. | Praise of Mahâvîra | |
| " | 7. | Description of the wicked. (No living beings should be destroyed; no merit in ablutions and tending the sacrificial fire. A monk should not be selfish) | |
| " | 8. | On exertion. (Exertion not leading to works recommended) | |
| " | 9. | The Law. (What a monk should abstain from) | |
| " | 10. | Carefulness. (Some more injunctions and prohibitions) | |
| " | 11. | The Path. (The same subject continued and concluded) | |
| " | 12. | The creed. (On the four heresies: Agnosticism, v. 2; Vinayavâda, v. 3; Akriyâvâda, vv. 4-10; Kriyâvâda, v. 11 ff.) | |
| " | 13. | The real truth. (Some duties of a pious monk) | |
| " | 14. | The Nirgrantha. (The same subject continued) | |
| " | 15. | The Yamakas. (Miscellaneous topics treated in artificial verses) | |
| " | 16. | The song. (On the virtues of a true monk) | |
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| LECTURE | 1. | The Lotus. (The parable of the Lotus. The Materialists, § 14 ff. Another school of Materialists and the forerunners of the Vaisêshikas, § 20 ff. The Vêdântins, § 25 ff. The fatalists, § 30 ff. Exhortation to follow the true Law, § 35 ff.) | |
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| LECTURE | 2. | On activity. (The twelve kinds of committing sin, and sinless actions. Some wicked practices described, § 25 ff. Some more wicked practices, § 60 ff. Right conduct of monks, § 69 ff.; of laymen, § 75 ff. Refutation of the 363 heretical philosophical schools, § 79 ff. Conclusion) | |
| " | 3. | Knowledge of food. (On the generation of living beings) | |
| " | 4. | Renunciation of activity. (An action is sinful though it be done unconsciously) | |
| " | 5. | Freedom from error; (what should be maintained and what not) | |
| " | 6. | Ârdraka; (his dispute with Gôsâla, a Buddhist, a Vêdic priest, a Vêdântin, and a Hastitâpasa) | |
| " | 7. | Nâlandâ. (Udaka, a follower of Pârsva, is converted by Gautama) | |
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| INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS | |
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| INDEX OF SANSKRIT AND PRÂKRIT WORDS | |
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| Transliteration of Oriental Alphabets adopted for the Translations of the Sacred Books of the East | 453 |