Some Jaina Canonical Sutras c7.2

c7.2

The Ācārāṅga is the first Jaina anga. It contains important rules for the Jain monks and nuns. An attempt has been made here to compare these rules with those of the Hindus and Buddhists noticing their main points of agreement and difference. This text is a mixture of prose and verse which we so frequently meet with in Buddhist literature. The sermons contained in it consist mainly of exhortations and warnings. Both in this Sūtra and in the Sūtrakṛtāṅga we find some verses which in form and contents can be well included in the Pāli Suttanipāta or Dhammapada. These belong to the ancient Indian Samana literature. This book has been edited for the PTS, London (1882), and translated into English by Jacobi in SBE, vol. xxii. It has also been edited by Schubring, Leipzig, 1910, and translated into German by him in Worte Mahāvīras. The Āgamodaya Samiti of Bombay has published an edition with commentary.