Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

SR No.: 001125
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 504
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Dictionary, & Dictionary - Language
File Size: 9 MB

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Abhaya
When Kālasuriya was severely suffering on his death-bed Abhaa helped him dying peacefully.18 Seņia was so much pleased with Abhaa that he offered him the crown, but the latter refused it 19 and became a disciple of Titthayara Mahāvīra.20 He would be reborn in the celestial abode Vijaya(21) and would get emancipation in Mahāvideha(1).21
Some other anecdotes associated with Abhaa are :- getting one-pillar palace constructed through a deity;22 searching out a thief who stole mangoes from the palace-garden ;23 setting Seyaņaya free from an alligator ;24 saving Cellapā's life by not setting fire to her palace inspite of the orders from Senia;25 finding out the people who were really religious and those who pretended to be so ;catching a washerman red-handed, who wore Abhaa's clothes sent for laundry ;27 stopping people from abusing a wood-cutter who had renounced the world and his attempt to capture the thief Rohiņiya.29
18. Ayah. p. 681, AvaCu. II. p. 170. 25. AvaCu. I. p. 114, AvaH. p. 95, AvaM. 19. AvaCu. II. p. 171, AvaH. p. 682.
p. 138, Visk. p. 414, BrhM. p. 58. 20. Ibid. Anut. 1.
26. SutCu. p. 78. 21. Anut. 1.
27. AvaCu. II. p. 61, AvaH. p. 671. 22. DasCu. p. 44.
28. DasCu. pp. 83-84. 23. DasCu. p. 45, SthA. p. 256.
29. VyaM. IV. p. 67. 24. AvaCu. I. p. 468, AvaH. p. 355.
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Abhagga (Abhagna) Third chapter of the first section of Vivāgasuya. has the story of Abhaggasena(2).2 1. Vip. 2.
2. Ibid. 15-20.
1. Abhaggasena (Abhagnasena) King of Vārattapura. Vārattaga(3) was his minister. He is also known as Abhayaseña.? 1. AvaCu. II. p. 199, NisCu. IV, p. 158.
2. Avan. 1298. 2. Abhaggasena Son of Vijaya(16), the chieftain of a gang of five hundred thieves staying at a place near the town of Purimatāla ruled by Mahabbala(8). He was arrested by the king treacherously at a festival. Various tortures were inflicted upon him. He was forcibly fed upon his own relatives' flesh, blood etc. All this was, as Titthayara Mahāvīra explained, owing to the consequence of the sins he committed in his preceding life as Nipnaya(1), a very rich egg-merchant of Purimatāla.
1. Vip. 15-20, SthA. p. 507. 1. Abhaya See Abhaa.
1. SutCu. p. 414, AvaCu. I. p. 547.
2. Abhaya Tenth chapter of the first section of Anuttarovavāiyadasā.1
1. Anut. 1.