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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from the above study is that the Svelambara versions show at least two sets of working the pedigree, one represented by Sanghadāsa and Hemacandra and the other by Śilānka, and the perfect agreement between the VH and TSPC lists reveals that genealogical account in the latter work is based on the former rather than on the CMC account
Thus our foregoing study displays that the Svetambara lists are too short to merit any extensive comparison with the Digambara version. Nevertheless, even these shorter lists show striking points of dissimilarity with the Digambara ones, for none of the names except Balabhadra recurs in the Digambara lists Under the circumstances, this basic difference between the lists of the two schools eventually results in the neutralızation of each version.
A comparison of both the Śvetämbara and the Digambara lists with the Brahmanical, epic-Puranic genealogies of the Ikşvāku dynasty shows that neither of the former lists has anything in common with the latter Although a few names12 of the Brahmanical royal lists can be found in the Jaina lists, yet the identification of those names with their Jaina counterparts cannot commend itself on that slender point of similarity. For, as is obvious from the Jaina lists, the names occur in a very different context and variant forms 13
Thus it is not until the account of the second Cakravartin Sagara that we meet with two Ikşvāku monarchs together with one Aila king of Brahmanical celebrity The narrative of the Sagara occurs in these Puranas13 as a part of the life story of the second Tirthankara Ajitanatha who is represented as the son of
12 Such as Bhadraratha among the Anavas, Bala among the Ayodhya line of the Iksvatus and Vibhu of the Ksatravyddha dynasty of Kast,-AIHT, PP 147-49
13. VPC, 5 50 63, 168-203, RPC, 5 56-64, 74-75, 247-283, JHV, 13. 26-80, UP 48 71-141, SPC, 5 3 6-8, 5 10 3-5, 5 11 1-5 14 4, VH P, 300f, CMC, pp 56-71, TSPC, 2 2 529-580, 3.3 1-177, 2.4. 1-370, 2 6 62-178, 2 6 1-615,