Prakrit Proper Names Part 2

SR No.: 001126
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 536
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Dictionary, & Dictionary - Language
File Size: 9 MB

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Maranasamahi
Maranasamahi (Maraṇasamādhi) Another name of Maranavibhatti.1 ft is also named as Samlehaṇasuya." Its contents were drawn from some eight texts: Maranavibhatti, Maraṇavisohi, Maranasamāhi, Saṁlehaṇāsuya, Bhattapariņņā, Aurapaccakkhāṇa, Mahāpaccakkhāṇa, Ārāhaṇapainna. Formerly there was a separate text of this name.* See also Painnaga.
1. Mar. 663.
2. Ibid. 660f.
1. Prs. 4.
2. BrhKs. p. 384, AcaCu. p. 233.
3. BrhKs. p. 921, 1670, DasCu. p. 250,
VyaBh. 3. 345.
4. BrhKs. p. 1074.
Marahatta or Marahattha (Mahārāṣṭra) A Milikkhu1 country? which was made suitable and declared permissible for the journey of monks by king Sampai.3 Woolen blankets called nilakanbalas were very costly in this country. A liquor-shop in this country could be recognised by a flag which fluttered over it." The festivity called 'samaṇapūya' originated there during the reign of king Sayavahaṇa. The people of this region were not talkative (avogilla). Marahaṭṭha is identified with the Maratha country watered by the upper Godavari. It lay between Godavari and Krishna.
1. AvaN. 148-9, 313, AvaCu. I. p. 128, Vis. 1561-2, AcaCu. p. 374, KalpV. p. 19, KalpDh. p. 36, AvaH. p. 149. 2. AvaCu. I. p. 182.
3. AvaN. 344ff., AvaCu. I. p. 211, AvaBh. 36-7, Vis. 1724ff.
Marici
550
See Marii.1
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Marii (Marici) See Marii.1
1. AvaN. 347, AvaBh. 36 (Dipikā) p. 75, AvaCu. I. p. 485.
1. AcaCu. p. 374.
3. Ibid. 661-663.
Marii (Marici) Son of Cakkavaṭṭi Bharaha(1) and his wife Vamma(2), grandson of Titthayara Usaha(1) and a previous life of Titthayara Mahavira.1 Since his body threw ray-like light, he was named Marii-Marici.2 He took initiation from Titthayara Usabha, studied eleven Amga(3) texts, but could not strictly follow the right path and lived like a heretic.3 Titthayara Usabha had predicted that in future Marii would take birth as Vasudeva(1) Tiviṭṭha(1), Cakkavaṭṭi Piyamitta(1) and lastly as Titthayara Mahavira.' He initiated a prince named Kavila(3) who was his only disciple.5 After death he was born as a god in the Bambha celestial region. Thereafter, he took birth as Brāhmaṇa Kesiya(1) in the Kollaga(2) settlement and so on."
4. Ibid. 661.
5. Ibid. p. 985.
6. NisCu. III. p. 131.
7. VyaBh. 7. 126.
8. GDA. p. 118.
4. AvaN. 423-4, 432ff., AvaCu. I. p. 221, Vis 1786ff., KalpV. p. 41. 5. AvaCu. I. p. 228, AvaN. 438ff. 6. AvaCu. I. p. 229.