Jainism and Karnataka Culture

SR No.: 011062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S R Sharma
Publisher: Karnataka Historical Research Society Dharwar
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 263
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 9 MB

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JAINISM AND KARNĀTAKA CULTURE After pacifying all, with a pure mind
स्नेह वैरं संगं परिग्रहं चापहाय शुद्धमनाः। स्वजनं परिजनमपि च धात्वा क्षमयेत्प्रियवचनैः ॥ ३ ॥ सोकं भयमवसादं क्लेदं कालुभ्यमरतिमपि हित्वा। सत्वोत्साहमुदीर्य च मनः प्रसाचं श्रुतैरमृतैः॥४॥ आहारं परिहाप्य क्रमशः स्निग्धं विवर्धयेत्पानं । स्निग्धं च हापयित्वा खरपानं पूरयेक्रमशः ॥५॥ खरपानहापनामपि कृत्वा कृत्वोपवासमपि शक्तया ।
पञ्चनमस्कारमनास्ततुं त्यजेत्सर्व यत्लेन ॥६॥ The mind was not to be ruffled or agitated with either desire for life or for death and all the hopes and fears connected therewith-Deither memories of friendly attachments nor anxiety for heavenly bliss. This is the rule expounded by the Jinéndras :
जीवितमरणाशंसे भय मित्र स्मृति निदान नामानः।
सल्लेखनातिचरः पञ्चजिनदैः समादिष्टाः ॥ ७ ॥ To those who follow these precepts the highest happiness is promised: एवं विधैरतिचाररहितां सल्लेखनां अनुतिष्ठन् कीदृशं फलमामोत्याहः
निश्रेयसमभ्युदयं निस्तारं दुस्तरं सुखांचुनिधिम् । नि:पिरति पनिधर्मा सवै खैरनालीढः ॥ ८॥
जन्मजरामयमरणैः शोकैर्दुःखैर्भयैश्च परिमुक्तम् ।
निर्वाणशुखसुखं निःश्रेयसमिष्यते नित्यम् ॥९॥ One instance of Sallékhana performed in this classical fashion by Maladhāri-déva, is thus described in an inscription :
" At the tirtha of Dhavala-sarasa (Belgola) he (Maladharideva ) striving at ripeness which was blessed by renunciation, full of joy, with firm mind, (and ) exercising (his body) in the (five) methods (of kāyôtsarga 18 abandoned (bis) unstable body in order to produce, as it were, the complete destruction of (cupid) who springs from the body."18
11 Rainakarandaka-8'rāva kācára v., M. D. J, G. XXIV, pp. 89-99. 13 Cf. Jacobi, Death and Disposal of the Dead, E. R. E. IV, pp. 484-85. 13 Cf. Ep. Oar. II Pp, 108-07.