Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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in the Jaina account, (197), or even as Bimbis āra and Pakku. sāti did in the Buddhist tradition(198). The Avadana makes it perfectly clear that the account of his initiation by both Mahavira and the Buddha must in itself be an imitation of one account by the other. From very olden times, it has been a practice to enlist well-known names among the followers by each religion. This is the reason why Rāma figures as an ideal man in the Jaina, the Buddhist and the Vedic traditions alike. Each tradition has built up the Rama story in its own way.
The Jaina account about Udayana is contained in the Bhagavati Sūtra (199). The Uttarājjhayanāni contains a concise account of the same(200). The early texts apart, the story has figured in the later-day commentaries and curni literature of the Jainas.
According to the Jaina Āgamas, (201), Abhicakumāra: who was the sone of Udrayana, was also a follower of the nirgranthas. As he was deprived of the kingdom, he became angry with his father, and could never forget the injustice done to him, so that after his death, he was born as asura.
Canda-pradyota
Like the names of Srenika Bimbisāra and Ajātasatru Kūņika, the name of Canda-pradyota also figures in both the traditions. Both the traditions agree that in his early life, Canda-pradyota was haughty, a lover of war, an addict who was fond of mischievous ways. Both the traditions contain many accounts of his wars. Of these, a war between him and Udayana of Vatsa has been described with much similarity in both(202). Even the Pauranic literature of the Hindus contain an account of this war(203). On the basis of this very episode, the great poet, Bhāsa, produced his dramatic master-piece, Svapanavā savadattam.
According to the Jaina account, Canda-pradyota fought with King Udāyana of Sindhu Sauvira, (204), Satānika of Vatsa, (205), Bimbisāra of Magadha, (206), and Dummaha of Pancāla(207). He fought with Udayana for a servant maid named Svarna-gulikā, with Satānika for Queen Mrgāvati, with Dummaha for a crown with two faces and with Bimbi