Aspects of Brahmanical Influence On Jaina Mythology

SR No.: 011037
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shaktidhar Jha
Publisher: Bharat Bharti Bhandar
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 315
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Aspects af Brahmanical Influence on the Jain Mythology
of the Lord, and all the other people were Kşatriyas by name? From these statements it appears that the Jaina tradition considers all the above names except kuru as owing their origin to the naturc of duties said to have been assigned to each group of persons forming these Ganas As such, these are impressed upon us as class designations which were not derived from any real or eponymous progenitor and founder of the said Ganas But the above Ganas together with the Kurus, Videhas and Jñātas or Jñatshas find varying treatment in the Puranas under investigation, which, however, will be discussed in proper context
Now, before adverting to the study of the traditional dynasties as represented in the Jaina Purānas, a few words must be said about the identity of the class styled Bhoga, who find their mention in the Artareyas and Satapaiha' Brāhmanas and recur in the Brahmanical epic-Purānic tradition20 as a powerful branch of the radu line of the Lunar dynasty But Dr B C Law, while presenting a study of different tribes, does not refer to any identity between the canonical Bhogas and the Brahmanıcal Bhojas 11 Dr H C. Raychaudhary also does not seem inclined to identify the two 12 But there are reasons to believe that the Bhogas of the Canonical texts were not different from the Bhojas of the Brahmanical epics and Puranas Firstly, Bhogarājala of the early Jaina texts whom Rajimatı 7 आरक्षपुरुपा उग्रा उनदण्डाधिकारिण ।
भोगा मन्त्र्यादयो भर्तुस्त्रायस्त्रिशा हरेरिव ।। राजन्या जज्ञिरे ते ये समान-वयस प्रभो । अवशेषास्तु पुरुषा बभूवु क्षत्रिया इति ।।
-TSPC, 1 2 974-979 8 VIII 14 9 VIII 5 4 21 10 Veșnupurāna (Wilson's translation, edited by Hall) Vol IV PP 260,
271 11 TAI, PP 388 391 and cf pp 35, 88 12 PHAI, p 120 13 अह च भोगंरायस्स त चसि अघगवहिणो ।
Ullarådhyagana-Satra. Lecture 12 v 43a, also Dasavsyalıyasutra, 28