Critical Study Of Paumacariyam

SR No.: 022643
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K R Chandra
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology and Ahimsa
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 672
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Book_Devnagari
File Size: 18 MB

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SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Conception :-The PCV (3.59-67; 21.15-17) mentions that at the time of the conception of the embryo of a Jina various goddesses serve his mother and there is a shower of gems in his house?
Birth :- The celestial beings take the new-born child to the Meru mountain and perform his ablution ceremony (3. 71-103; 21.18) called Abhişeka (5. 54).
Renouncement:- This occasion is called Nikkhamanamahā mahima (3. 138). The Lokāntika gods strengthen the inclination of a Jina to renounce the world (3. 127-130). Celestial beings carry him in a divine litter when he renounces the world (3.132). They further immerse his five-handfulls of hair extracted by himself from his head into the Kşirodadhi (3. 137). The AP calls the ceremony Pariniskrāntimahakalyāņaka (17. 74)?
Omniscience:-When a Jina attains omniscience, the Indra, the Suras and the Asuras pay homage to him, sign in his praise (2. 47; 4. 20), listens to his first sermon and then returns to their respective places.
Other monks who attain omniscience are also said to have been hailed by the celestial beings (39.34; 101.69). At that time the quarter appear to be red-bright and divine music is heard (14. 1-7).
Emancipation :- In the case of the Jinas the ceremony associated with this event is not mentioned in the PCV. But the occasion of monk Kosala's emancipation is said to have been graced by the Devas by making a worship of and offering perfumes and flowers to the body of that monk. This ceremony is called Nirvāṇagamanam ahimā (22. 46).
The AP calls these five occasions 'Kalyāņakas' i. e. auspicious occasions? The TS (4. 22)* also refers to these auspicious occasions and the work of the Devas on these occasions.
Pärapä-The occasion of breaking a fast by a Tirthařkara or a great muni is hailed by five Atisayas (21. 25 supernatural occurrences) viz. flow of cold breeze, downpour of precious stones and flowers,
1. See AP, 12. 84, 97; 163-211; TSP, I. pp. 105-130. 2. See AP. 13. 176, 213; TSP, I, p. 109-130. 3. See T SP, I. P; 159.6 6; AP, 17. 47-209. 4. See AP 22. 18, 74f; 23. 191-194; TSP, I. p. '88f. 5. AP, 20; 269 f; UP, 48. 79-80. 6. Sce, AP, 47. 343; TSP, I. p. 360, 363. 7. AP, 25. 222. 8. See the Bhāşya also.