(19) Bhiksu and Kshapanaka fight

KSHAPANAKA (Jain monk) - (looks at the Buddhist monk and shouts)

“Hey Hey beggar! Come here! I will ask you something!”

BHIKSHU- (with anger)

“Aah! Sinner! Vampire in person! What are you prattling about?”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Hey Hey! Do not be angry! I will question you about the scripture only!”

BHIKSHU-

“Hey Kshapanaka! You know something about scriptures too? Good! I will wait indeed!

(approaching) What do you want to ask?”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Tell me; since you have only momentary existence, for what purpose are you following these disciplines?”

BHIKSHU-

“Hey Listen! Some particular state of understanding appearing in the succession of ideas rising in the intellect will be freed of Vaasanaas and get liberated!”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Hey Fool! In some other Manu’s rule (After many Yugas), some one will get liberated!

So how will that future liberation of some one else help you when you are suffering now?

And again I ask, who taught you these doctrines?”

BHIKSHU-

“The all-knower Buddha alone taught these doctrines!”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Hey! How do know that Buddha is an all-knower?”

BHIKSHU-

“Hey don’t you know that the Buddhist scriptures praise him as the all-knower?”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Hey brainless idiot! If you believe that he is an all-knower because he says so, then I also know everything! I know that you along with your fathers and fore-fathers from the past seven generations are all living as slaves to us!”

BHIKSHU- (with anger)

“Hey sinner! Vampire! Dirt covered slimy creature! Am I your slave?”

KSHAPANAKA-

“Hey you husband of the wayward whore! You evil monk! I just mentioned it as an example! I will now tell you a word of good advice! Throw away the doctrines of Buddhist cult and follow the doctrines of Arhat and join the Digambara cult.”

BHIKSHU-

“Aah! Aah! Sinner! You are already in the path of ruin! You want to ruin others also!

स्वाराज्यं प्राज्यमुत्सृज्य लोके निन्द्यामनिन्दितः

अभिवान्छति को नाम भवानिव पिशाचतां [10]

Which blameless person will desire the disapproved state of vampire as you do,

by throwing away the prosperous kingdom one owns?

And also, whoever has faith in the religion of Arhat?”

KSHAPANAKA-

“The paths followed by planets and stars; the eclipses of sun and moon;  the treasures hidden under the earth (the appearance of sudden wealth); the knowledge of the Supreme;  all these have been predicted by Lord Arhat and proves that he is an all-knower.”

BHIKSHU-

“Hey! Your Lord has indeed suffered to gain all this knowledge which already was predicted by the extra-sensory astrological knowledge prevailing from a long time!

As it is-

ज्ञातं वपुः परिमितः क्षमते त्रिलोकीं

जीवः कथं कथय संगतिमन्तरेण

शक्नोति कुम्भनिहितः सुशिखोsपि दीपो

भावान्प्रकाशयितुमप्युदरे गृहस्य [11]

Tell me! How can the person of limited body structure  

know about the entire happenings of the three worlds without direct contact?

 Can the lighted lamp with even a properly made wick,

reveal the objects inside the whole of the house,

 when it is kept inside a pot?

Therefore, as it goes against the principles of this and the other world. I think the doctrines of Buddha are better than the doctrines of Arhat, as they are easy to follow and are plesant to the mind too.”

SHAANTI-

“Friend! Let us go elsewhere!”

KARUNAA-

“So be it!”

SHAANTI- (sees in front of her)

“Here comes in front of us SomaSiddhaanta! Let it be so! Let us follow him!”