ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 



CEYLON . BRANCH. 



Nl EVAN A. 

 By Prof. M. M. Kunte. 



The sources of information.— A position stated.— -Summary 

 of the differences between the Buddhists and the Vddists.- — The 

 platforms of the polities of exclusion and absorption or the Ve'dic 

 and the Buddhistic polities. — The cardinal principle of Yoga and 

 the cardinal doctrine of Gautama Buddha* — The Naimisyaka 

 forest and its ascetics. — The Jainas or conservative rationalists. — 

 The philosophical 'plexus. — The radical rationalists or Buddhists. 

 —•The Buddhistic method. — Its results. — The determining causes 

 of the Buddhistic stand-point stated. — The ground-basis of Bud- 

 dhism or Ariya Sachcha and the Indian system of Yogo. — Bud- 

 dhistic attitude towards the Ve'dic, Veddntic and Jaina systems. — 

 Updi-sesa-Nibbdna. — Anupddi~sesa-Nibbdna.~- Perfect Nirvana 

 stated. — Conclusion. 



I. The sources of information cannot be too carefully 

 and critically investigated, sifted, analyzed, and tabulated. The 

 feeling of Nirvana is hinted at in the Upanishad literature.* 

 It is frequently mentioned in the Brdhmanic Puranas.f In the 



* See for instance the Upanishad (Mundaka III. 2, 6.) where the com- 

 mentator explains Nirvana. 



f See the Bhagavat Parana, Vislmu Pursiga. 



