[Advaita-l] Did the Jains come later than Shankara?

[Venkatesh Murthy]

Namaste

It may be Sri B Govindacharya's tactics to confuse people because some
critics have said Madhvacharya borrowed ideas from Jainism. He may be
trying to confuse the critics
On Fri, 12 May 2017 at 1:03 PM, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On 12 May 2017 12:06, "Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l" <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, 11 May 2017, कुवँर बिपिन चौहान via Advaita-l wrote:
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> In the archives of this list you can find a post be me analyzing the
> description of the "Buddha" avatar in Vishnu Purana and showing it could
> apply equally to Jains as well Buddhists.
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> There are 24 prophets of the Jains called Tirthankars of whom Mahavir is
> the last in this yuga-cycle.  Another earlier one is Rshabhadev who is
> mentioned in the Bhagavata and other puranas as an avatara of Vishnu
> Bhagavan.
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> I'm sure Shri Govindacharya knows this.  It does not seem likely a vidvan
> of his calibre  would make such an elementary mistake.  I wonder if as the
> "Jain view" he is refering to the great Hemachandra who holds a position
> similar to Shankaracharya for Jains atleast Shvetambar ones.  He is
> post-shankara in chronology as far as I can recall.
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> But the concept of the middling sized ( body-sized) Atman that the scholar
> is talking of as jaina (aarhata) view was already there before Shankara and
> refuted by him in the Brahmasutra bhashya:
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> ब्रह्मसूत्रभाष्यम्द्वितीयोऽध्यायःद्वितीयः पादः सूत्रम् ३४ - भाष्यम्
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> ………जीवस्य अकार्त्स्न्यमपरो दोषः प्रसज्येत । कथम् ? शरीरपरिमाणो हि जीव इत्या
> र्हता मन्यन्ते ; शरीरपरिमाणतायां च सत्याम् , अकृत्स्नोऽसर्वगतः परिच्छिन्न
> आत्मेत्यतो………
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> अग्रे पठन्तु...
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> ब्रह्मसूत्रभाष्यम्द्वितीयोऽध्यायःद्वितीयः पादः सूत्रम् ३६ - भाष्यम्
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> ………स्यात् ; ततश्चाविशेषेण सर्वदैव अणुर्महान्वा जीवोऽभ्युपगन्तव्यः, न
> शरीरपरिमाणः । अतश्च सौगतवदार्हतमपि मतमसङ्गतमित्युपेक्षितव्यम् ॥ ३६ ॥………
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> Regards
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> Subrahmanian. V
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-Venkatesh