A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas c11.65

c11.65

⁶ Prof. Jarl Charpentier is one of them. In his intro. (p. 32) to his edition of *The Uttarādhyayanasūtra* he says: "It may further be noted that the term *sūtra* is in reality very inappropriate to the sort of compositions included in the Siddhanta, inasmuch as we usually understand by *sūtra*'s the very short and concise compendiums of ritual, grammar, philosophy and other sciences. But *sūtra* has apparently another sense amongst the Jains and Buddhists, and there is little doubt that it was their purpose in adopting this name rather to contest the claims of their Brahmanical opponents to be solely in possession of real canonical works than to imitate the style and modes of expression of the Brahmanical *sūtra*-literature."