Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

SR No.: 001125
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 504
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Dictionary, & Dictionary - Language
File Size: 9 MB

Page 425

Paithapa
412
became a monk. Acārya Pālitta cured its king Murumda(2) from a severe headache and the latter became his follower. Two Brahmin brothers Varāhamihira and Bhaddabāhu were initiated here. When the title of ācārya was bestowed upon the latter, the former reverted to Brahmanism.? Paitthāņa is identified with modern Paithan situated on the bank of river Godavari in the Aurangabad District.8 5. AvaCu. II. p. 188, AvaN. 1280.
7. KalpV. p. 251, KalpDh. p. 163, UttK, 6. PinNM. p. 142; BrhKs. p. 1123 mentions p. 229.
Murumda as the king of Kusumapura. 1 8. SGAMI. p. 154.
Paithāņa (Pratisthāna) Same as Paitthāņa.
1. AvaN. 1280, 1299, VyaM. IV. p. 36. Paiņna (Prakīrna) Same as Painnaga.
1. Sam. 84.
Paiņpaga or Paiņpaya (Prakirnaka ) Canonical texts other than eleven Amgas(3) and Ditthivāya. All the Amgabāhira texts, whether Avassaya or Avassayavairitta are mentioned as Painnaga, Paiņñagajjhayana or Paiņpa.? Šāntisūri excludes Uvaṁgas from the Painnaga class. The number of these texts is not fixed. It varies with every Titthamkara. It is said that in every tirtha the number of Painnagas corresponds to that of the disciples of the Jina, endowed with four types of knowledge. Painnagas are composed by these disciples in accordance with the teachings of the Jina." There were eighty four thousand Painnagas in the tirtha of Titthayara Usaha(1), numerable in those of subsequent twenty two and fourteen thousand in that of Titthayara Mahāvīra.5 In the current sixfold classification of the Agama there are ten Painnagas. They are as follows : Causarana, Aurapaccakkhāņa, Mahāpaccakkhāṇa, Bhattaparinnā, Tamdolaveālia, Samthāraga, Gacchāyāra, Ganiviijā, Devimdatthaya and Maranasamāhi. This number has been fixed since the time of Bhāvaprabhasūri (1772 V.S), but the names of the texts differ. Bhāvaprabhasūri mentions Camdāvijjhaya in place of Gacchāyāra. In the Jaina Granthāvali three different sets of ten Painnagas are given. In the first set Vīrastava and Candravedhyaka replace Maraṇasamāhi and Gacchāyāra. In the second set Ajīvakalpa, Gacchācāra, Maranasamādhi, Siddhaprābhịta, Tīrthodgära (Titthogāli), Ārādhanāpatākā, Dvipasāgaraprajñapti, Jyotişkarandaka, Amgavidyā and Tithi prakirnaka find mention and in the third set all the ten names are different, viz., Pimdavisuddhi, Sārāvali, Paryantārādhanā, Jivavibhakti, Kavacaprakarana, Yoniprābhsta, Angacūliyā, Vțddhacatuhsarana and Jambupayanno.8 1. Utt, 28.23.
4. Nan. 41, NanM. p. 208, GacV. p. 41. 2. Nan. 44, NanM, p. 208, NanCu. p. 5. Ibid. Sam. 84, VyaBha. (pithikā. 119), 60, Anucu. p. 3, Sam. 84.
Vol. 12. p. 110. 3. Utts. p. 565.
| 6. See CLJ, pp. 49-51, for details.
60