Agam 05 Ang 05 Bhagvati Vyakhya Prajnapti Sutra

SR No.: 001628
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jozef Deleu
Publisher: DE Tempel Brugge
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 372
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, Canon, & agam_bhagwati
File Size: 19 MB

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as well as his father-in-law. The text conceals this close relationship between the Master and the man who later on, like a mean annautthiya and a hereticos, will disavow the irrevocable factum tenet. Jamāli, like Gosāla Mankhaliputta in XV, will proclaim that he has attained Omniscience but, like Siva in XI 9', will be proved a liar by Goyama.
Jayanti represents the fair sex. She is a sister of king Sayāṇīya of Kosambī46 and consequently a sister-in-law of Mv.'s niece Migāvai. Sudamsaņa, finally, represents the Jaina devotees.
So these seven conversion stories as it were suffice to draw a fairly complete picture of My.'s activity as a preacher. Only a few details are added by the stories of one other monk of Pārsva's creed, Kalāsa Vesiyaputta (I 95), who unlike Gangeya is converted by the Jaina Elders, and of three other brahmans: Usabhadatta (and his wife Devāṇandā, IX 33'), Poggala (XI 122) and Somila (XVIII 104). Of these three episodes the first is the simple account of a conversion. Unlike the stories discussed above it records no actual teaching on the part of Mv. but only the statement that Devānandā is his real mother. That the Devāṇandā episode has been prefixed to the Jamāli episode obviously is just another attempt (besides the suppression of Jamāli's relationship) to dissociate Mv. from his disloyal ksatriya disciple. Poggala represents the brahmanical ascetics (parivvāyaga); his episode, however, is merely a parallel of the Siva story to which it refers. Somila, finally, represents those that do not enter the order but are converted to the Jaina laity.
In connection with the Poggala and the Somila episode I may be allowed to add a few words on parallel stories. Such parallels will be a typical procedure in Nāy. 2, Uvās., Antag., Aņutt., Vivāg. and Nir. (Uvangas 8-12). As a matter of fact a few episodes of the Viy., or parts of such, served as clichés imitated in these texts. Thus Antag. and Anutt. refer to Khandaga (BARNETT's translation pp. 55, 85, 100, 106, 110, 115, 118, 120
45 In I 101 and VIII 71 the annautthiyas attack this tenet and so does an heretical god in XVI 5.
46 Kosambi (Kaušāmbi): mod. Kosam village on the Jumna, thirty miles south-west of Allahabad (DEY, Geographical Dict. p. 96); see Kosam Khirāj QIM 63 G/7/5 (T.I., p. 224).
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