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 Brahmanical Influence on the Jaina Mythology
him as a descendant of the already extant Han-dynastyal and Invest him with a personal name Simhakelu and a matronymic Markandeya Among the Svetāmbaras, Silänka is non-informative on this point Hemacandra," on the other hand, represents him as a denizen of the mythical land and like Sanghadasa, calls him Har instead of his son and thus treats the former as the father of the Hari dynasty.
The early part of the Han genealogy is given first by VPG'8 in connection with the ancestry of Janaka, and is next adopted by RPG4 in the same context. The Purānas, being principally concerned with the Ramayana account, do not supply the pedigree of the Haris proper, the Jaina counterparts of the Brahmapical Tadadas But the genealogies as given by these two works are deficient, for, after setting out a few names in broken succession at two stages, the authors skip over to Vasavaketu, represented as the father of Ling Janaka
Now coming to the main line, the Haridanía proper, we find the same names forming the early part of the Harı genealogy The pedigree of this line consists of mainly three parts. First part begins with Har or Simhakelu and ends in some works with Vasugin and in a few is carried some steps further, and,
40. It is to be coted here that, according to these three works, there is an
immeasurably long gap in the pedigree of the Haris, as the works do pot take notice of persons born after Hari-(Kanta), represented as the contemporary of the first Tirtha kara, and before Simharelu's father,
ho is placed in the Tirtha of the tenth Tirthantara Silalanātha This fact also proves as to how lightly the Jaina authors have treated the
genealogies of different dynasties 41 Op at. sol IV p 77 42. Vasudecalırdi, p 367 हरिवासे य मिहणं जाय ।
ET ATH TUI, 7Ef mit dat... 43 21 7-10 44 21 7-9 45 ic from Hort to Mahidharc during the Tirtha of Sitalanātha and then
from Sumitra, father of Munisurrolanátha, the twentieth Torthankara, to Mfaharasha VPC 21 11-31, RPC 21 10 54