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Buddhist Sects in India by Nalinaksha Dutt Review by: Ernest Bender Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1981), p. 509 Published by: American Oriental Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/601374 . Accessed: 12/06/2014 23:57 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Oriental Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Journal of the American Oriental Society. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 91.229.229.177 on Thu, 12 Jun 2014 23:57:56 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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Buddhist Sects in India by Nalinaksha DuttReview by: Ernest BenderJournal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 101, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1981), p. 509Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/601374 .

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fold objects of drambha; 6. kasdya and mahdvrata no well-established concepts; 7. parTsaha and bhiksddosa no well-established concepts; 8. monastic jurisprudence not yet formulated; 9. karma-doctrine in a primitive form; 10. no special ontology; and 13. no super-humanization of the biog- raphy of Mahavira. He comments on each of these features and discusses them as they appear in the Acdranga I and the Sutrakrtanga I and the subsequent texts. He then applies the same criteria to the Buddhist Suttanipdta and concludes that certain passages reflect concepts "essentially Jain rather than more essentially Buddhist. . . . As contrasted to Brahmanism both Buddhism and Jainism are ascetic traditions and both made their appearance about the same time." Dr. Dixit concludes in re the essentials of asceticism the older texts of both share such features, reflecting an early kinship.

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The Hermit and the Love- Thief. Sanskrit Poems of Bhartri- hari and Bilhana. By BARBARA STOLER MILLER. Pp. 127. New York: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1978. Cloth, $12.00; paper, $5.00.

The English translations, with some revisions, from the author's earlier studies of the poems of Bhartrihari and Bilhana reprinted in this volume "as outstanding examples of the classical Indian genre known as the fragmentary lyric. .

[to] offer new readers of Indian poetry enough cultural and

literary material to make the poetry more accessible and more enjoyable."

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Vadddrddhane: A Study. By B. K. KHADABADI. Pp. xvi + 288. Dharwad: KARNATAK UNIVERSITY. 1979. Rs. 20.00; U.S. $5.00; ?2.00.

The author's doctoral dissertation of 1969 to which has been added an appendix discussing the textual and critical sources, the title of the work, its author and the date and place of its composition, together with indices of technical terms and proper names. Composed in Old Kannada, its composi- tion assigned to the first quarter of the 10th century, A.D., the aim of the nineteen stories comprising this collection is didactic-to instruct the disciple, as well as the member of the Digambara lay community in the tenets and practices of the Jain Faith. The text has been exploited to the full for the

information it contains-textual, religious, literary and social. A worthy undertaking brought to a fruitful conclusion.

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Jaina Dargan kd Adikdl. By DALSUKH MALVANIA. Pp. 39. Ahmedabad: L. D. INSTITUTE OF INDOLOGY. 1980. Rs. 8.00.

The publication of two lectures on Jainism delivered by the internationally recognized savant, Pt. Dalsukh Malvania, in

1977 at Sivaji University in memory of the late, great Jain-

ologist, Dr. A. N. Upadhye.

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Buddhist Sects in India. By NALINAKSHA DUTT. Pp. x + 297.

Delhi, Varanasi, Patna: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS. 1978.

Cloth, Rs. 40.00; paper, Rs. 25.00.

The historical development of Buddhism reviewed through

its original texts and, concomitantly, of Buddhist studies with

the author's assessment of previous scholarship and of the

data, where his decisions required. The reader will find the

value of this book in its use. (The first edition was published

in Calcutta in 1970.)

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A Critical Study of the Mahivastu. By BHIKKHU TELWATTE

RAHULA. Pp. xi + 435. Delhi, Varanasi, Patna: MOTILAL

BANARSIDASS. 1978. Rs. 90.00.

M. Winternitz has described the Mahavastu as one of the most important works of the Hinayana school and charac- terized it as "Far from its being a speciman of artistic literature, the Mahavastu should rather be described as a labyrinth, in which the thread of a connected narrative of the Buddha's life can only be discovered with some difficulty.... There is no apparent principle of systematic arrangement. Frequently there is not even an attempt made to establish any connection, however loose, between the various parts" (Vol. II, p. 241). The researcher having recourse to this work will find that the author's efforts have sufficiently cleared passages of the labyrinth for him to thread his way.

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