History and Doctrines of the Ajivikas: A Vanished Indian Religion c26.38

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Nāla, pl., 95 Nālandā, pl., 39, 41, 46 Nanda, dynasty, 143-5 Nandaka, peta, 20 Nanda Vaccha, n.pr., 19-20, 27-30, 84, 90, 94, 98, 118, 139, 244 Nandi Sūtra, Jaina scripture, 178, 180-1, 274 ; commentary quoted, 274 n. 5 Nārāyaṇa, god = Viṣṇu, 170, 172-3 Nārīśvara, god = Śiva, 81 Nāstika-vādin, a materialist, 25, 218 ; v. also Cārvāka, Lokāyata, materialism. nature, 225 ; v. also Bhāva naya, in Jaina epistemology, standpoints of predication, -vāda, the doctrine of nayas, 179-180, 274-5 Neil, R.A., 113 Nellore District, inscriptions, 187, 190 Nemicandra, Jaina writer, 181, 204 ; quoted, 181 n. 2 Nepāl, 70 Newal, pl., 33 Nibelungenlied, 7 nigaṇṭha (Pāli), nirgrantha (Skt.), heterodox ascetic, esp. a Jaina, 16, 27, 96-7, 102, 109, 112, 118-19, 138-9, 147-150, 161, 163, 165, 169, 181-4, 243-4, 256, 270 Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta = Mahāvīra, 11, 16-18, 21-23, 61, 75, 80, 91-3, 96, 138, 217 ; doctrine, 16 nigaṇṭhi-gabbha, birth from knots (?), 248-250, 256 Nigoha, cave, 150, 152 nikendabtra, Japanese form of nigaṇṭha, 112 Nilakēci, Tam. poem and its heroine, 52, 80-1, 84, 91, 122, 125, 186-7, 191, 198-202, 215, 236-9, 257, 259-260, 265-272, 276, 280 ; quoted, 81 n. 1, 115 nn. 1, 2, 122 n. 5, 125 n. 2, 201 n. 4, 202 nn. 2-4, 236, 237 n. 4, 260 n. 1, 265 nn. 5, 7, 270 n. 2, 276 n. 4 niraya, purgatory, 248 Nirayāvalikā Sūtra, Jaina scripture, 68, 71-3, 76-7 Nirgrantha Jñātriputra (Skt.) = Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta (Pāli), q.v. nirvāṇa, the highest bliss of the soul, 68 ; Ā., 219, 250, 253, 255, 258-261, 271, 275 ; Jaina, 204 ; = death, parinirvāṇa, Buddha's, 73-4, 76, 89, 108 ; Mahāvīra's, 75-7 niryukti, Jaina commentary, 54 Nītiśataka, poem, 282