Laghuprabandhsangrah

SR No.: 001844
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jayant P Thaker
Publisher: Oriental Research Institute Vadodra
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 300
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari, History, & Story
File Size: 16 MB

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constructed in the way of the water-flow towards this big tank with the evident intention of filtering the water that is to be preserved in it. Half way between Can asma and Rūpapura there is a place called 'Panca Deharam' or 'Five temples', where old constructions are found out on digging. Therefore it can be inferred that present Caņasma and Rupapura might have been parts of one big town or city. And this inference would lend support to the historicity of the tank in question. 27.17.
-a town on the banks of the river Benna in the Abhira country in the south. Other names of the place occurring in Pkt. literature are Benn āyada, Bennayada and Venatada. The form in our text appears to be a corruption of Bennayada. This place is referred to in such ancient Jain a texts as the Avaśyaka-cūrṇi [ Part I, p. 547 of Ratalãm edition ], Malaya giri's Vrtti on Avasyakasūtra (twelfth cent. ) [ pp. 519-20 of Āgamodaya Samiti, Bombay edition], Malayagiri's Vrtti on Nandisutra (twelfth cent.) [p. 152 of Agamodaya Samiti, Bombay edition] and Bṛhatkathakośa of Harisena [p. 199 of Singhi Jaina Series ed.]. It is connected with such a historical personage as king Śrenika of Rajagṛha who begot a son called A bha y akumara by the daughter of a merchant of this place. The verse on p. 24 of our text, wherein the word Bennäḍaa occurs, is given in Malaya giri's Vrttis on Nandisutra and Avaśyakasutra, with slight variations. There a Buddhist monk asked a young Jaina monk: "Your Arhats are Omniscient and you are their sons. Therefore will you tell me the exact number of crows residing in this town?" The Jaina monk silenced the questioner by cleverly uttering the verse in question. [Vide for details B. J. Sandesara, Jaina Agamasahitya-mām Gujarata (Guj.), Ahmedabad, 1952, pp. 171-172.] 24.16.