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 of Brahmamical Influence on the Jaina Mythology
an Iksvahu king, Jitasatrul by name This Jutasatru is introduced in the Digambara accounts as the son of Tridasañjaya said to have been the son of one Dharanidhara 15 But despite the fact that these works set out Dharanidhara and Tridaśañjaya just after providing a lengthy list of the early Ikşoākus already mentioned, the accounts do not give us any information about their relationship with the last king of the list The Svetambara lists, on the other hand, are very short Naturally, it will be too much to expect any genealogical continuity between the last member of the first list and the father of Agitanatha
Now, the Purānas under investigation embody at least three versions in respect of the parentage of Sagara as well as his relationship with Ajitanatha VPC and RPC, for example, represent Sagara as the son of Vyjayasagara, second son of king Tridaśañjaya 18 Thus, according to these works, Ajitanātha and Sagara were both cousins But JHV without alluding to their parentage as also to the relationship they bore to each one, stops with a very brief mention of these personages as contemporaries The Uttara-purana gives a substantially different
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Like the Brahmanical Janakas of Videha and the Buddhist Brahmadattas of Varanasi Jita'satru is very popular name in the Jaina works At Jast thirteen Lings bearing this name are mentiored in the Vasudevahindi,-Vide pp 27, 3u 39, 49, 54, 74, 89, 121, 174, 237, 268-279, 286-87, 295-96, 348-50, 300-304
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एव परपराए समइक्कन्तेषु पुइपालेसु । angqgzaûç azfmadı azað svaì 11 तस्स य गुरणारगुरूवो पत्तो तिग्रमज समुप्पन्नो । तस्स विय इन्दुलेहा भज्जा पत्तोय जियसत्तू ॥ VPC, 5 50-51, Also RPC, 5,69-60, SPC, 5 1 2-5 16 तियसजयस्स पुत्तो वीओ च्चिय विजयसायरो नाम । तस्सवि य होइ भज्जा, सुमङ्गला स्वसपन्ना | तीए गव्मम्मि सुश्री जाश्रो सगरोत्ति नाम विक्खाओ ॥
VPC, 5 82-83a, RPC 574, 5PC 53 6-7 The last work, however, has dropped the prefix r of Vijayasagara, thus finding mention as Jayasagara
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