Sacred Literature of Jains

SR No.: 006969
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ganeshchandra Lalwani, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan
Publication Year: 1999
Total Pages: 250
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 22 MB

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SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS
their respective heavens.778 The account consists almost entirely of Emphasis is often laid upon the
mere catch-words or of references. sāmāia-m-ādīäiṁ ekkārasa aṁgāiṁ.
XXII. up. 10. varga 3, pupphiäu, puspikäḥ (or "täḥ), treats, with reference to up. 2, of the ten gods or goddesses 774 who came from their heavenly worlds775 to pay reverence to Mahavira, who thereupon tells to Goyama their previous history. They were in a former birth all turned or converted to the study of the samāia-m-adiäiṁ ekkārasa amgaim, either by the arhant Pasa or by the Ayya Suvvata or by the thera bhagavaṁto (see up. 3). These former births, as mahana, gähävati, satthavahe etc., occurred in Savatthi, Vaṇārasi (!), Manivaia, Vemdaṇaņā, Mihila, Hatthiṇapura, Kakaṁdi. The enumeration of the Brahmanical sciences here is similar to that in the Bhagavati (above, p. 303); and their names are similarly explained by the scholiast.
XXIII. up. 11. varga 4, pupphaculão, puspacuḍās 776 ten other histories of a similar nature. We possess the first alone, the Bhūtā nāmaṁ däriä, former birth of the Siridevi,777 is brought by Pasa to believe in the niggamtham pavayaṇam. The other histories have entirely disappeared with the exception of the names, [424] which are found778 in the gāhā in the introduction; the goddesses (not gods) who are here mentioned are for the most part mere personifications of ethical qualities.
XXIV. up. 12. varga 5, Vanhidasão, Vṛṣṇidasās, in 12 ajjhayaņas; 12 similar histories, of which we possess none but the first, the mere names by which the others were called having been preserved.779 The conversion of twelve princes of the race of Vrşņi is here treated of as having ensued through the influence of the arhan Ariṭṭhanemi. The first history deals with Nisaḍha, son of Baladeva, nephew of king Kanha
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773 Seated in the Kalpavatansaka Vimana, Kashinath K.
774 Camdejoisimde, Sure, Sukke, mahāgahe (planet Venus), Bahuputtiä. Punnabhadde, Manibhadde, Datte, Sive, Bale, Anadhite; four of these names, see p. 273, among those of the dihadasău.
775 Seated in the celestial chariot (Puspaka), Kashinath.
776 Contains an account of the female disciple of Mahāvīra Svāmi, named Puspacuila, and of her female attendant, Kashinath.
777 See p. 273 n.
778 siri, hiri, dhiti, kitthi, vuddhi, lajja, ila devi, sura devi, sarassai devi, gamdhadevi; The Siridevi comes to honor Mahavira...jaha Bahuputtia
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179 Nisadhe, Mahanisadhe, Anigahe. Vede, Pagati, Jutti, Dasarahe Dadharahe, Mahadhanu Sattadhanu, Dasadhanu, Sayadhanu.