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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1. Malli Nineteenth Titthankara born in' the Bharaka(2) region'during the present Osappiņi. Her contemporary in Eravaya(1) was Marudeva(1),2 Malli3 in her previous birth was king Mahabbala(2) of the city of Viyasogā in Mahavideha and thereafter a god in Jayamta(4), a celestial abode. Now she was born on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Mārgasirṣa, as the daughter of king Kumbha(4) and his queen Pabhāvai(4) of Mihila. She was named Malli, for her mother had developed the pregnancy-longing for wearing a wreath of flowers and sleeping on a flower-bed. She was 25 bows tall and her complexion was blue. Malli had a younger brother named Malladinna. He and the mendicant Cokkha became the indirect cause of spreading the news of Malli's flaming beauty.7 Paḍibuddhi, Camdacchāya, Ruppi(3), Samkha(7), Adiṇasattu, Jiyasattu(2), the six kings of Saeya, Campa, Savatthi, Vāṇārasī, Hatthiṇāura" and Kampilla, respectively were friends as well as ascetic-fellows of Malli in her previous birth, who now individually demanded her in marriage. When their proposals were not accepted they all attacked king Kumbh. The latter could not withstand the enemy's mighty forces. Malli then thought of a plan to show them the right path. The prospective kings were invited at the mohanaghara erected in the park of Asogavaṇiya(1), installing therein a gold statue of herself. They took it as real Malli and were infatuated with its charming beauty. As soon as Malli arrived there and removed the lid covering a hole over the head of the statue, very foul smell gushed out and the kings began to run away from there. Malli then delivered a religious discourse explaining them the impurity of the body. They all got enlightened and decided to renounce the world. Malli took to asceticism along with three hundred men on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month of Pausa in the Sahassambavana(4) park. On that occasion she used the Manorama(3) palanquin. Princes like Namda(13), Namdamitta(2), Sumitta(4), Balamitta(2), Bhanumitta(1), Amaravai, Amarasena and Mahasena(9) followed her. Vissas ena(3) was the first man to offer alms to Malli.9 She obtained omniscience that very day.10 Her sacred tree was ashoka." The six kings as mentioned above became her disciples.12 Imda(3) and Bamdhumai(1) are
1. Sam. 157, Vis. 1759, BrhKs. pp. 758, 1331, Nan. v. 19, Ava. p. 4, SthA. p. 524, AvaN. 371, Tir. 331.
2. Tir. 331-332.
3. Jna. 64-78; According to Samavāyanga(157) Namdaṇa(8) was her previous birth.
4. KalpV. p. 38, Sam. 157, AvaN. 386ff., Tir. 482.
5. AvaN. 1096.
6. Sam. 25, 55, AvaN. 377, 380, Tir. 353, 364.
7. AvaCu. I. p. 89.
8. AcaCu. p. 13, AcaSi. p. 21.
9. Sth. 229, AvaN. 221, 222, 224, 226, 228, 232, 329, Vis. 1657, 1660, 1664, 1675, Sam. 157, Tir. 393.
10. Jna. 77.
11. Sam. 157, Tir. 407. 12. Sth. 564.