Arhat Parshva and Dharnendra Nexus

SR No.: 002108
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1997
Total Pages: 204
Language: English, Hindi
Classification: Book_English, Articles, History, Art, E000, & E001
File Size: 8 MB

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Arbat Pårśva and Dharanendra Nexus
nigganthe, see there the reference on p. 232. It is likely that both these chapters formed the Purva
related works.) 30. See Isibhāsiyāiñ, Bombay 1984, pp. 230-33. 31. As stated there, it is an extract from the Gati-vyakarana-grantha, a chapter concerning the
exposition of transmigrational motion. (For detailed discussion on Pārsva's monastic discipline
and some of his doctrines, see here the following Sagarmal Jain's paper.) 32. These are ākāśa (space), dharma (ether), adharma (gravity), pudgala (matter), and jīva (soul). 33.
उध्धगामी जीवा अधेगामी पोग्गला। कम्मप्पभवा जीवा,
परिणाम पभवा पोग्गला। (Isibhāsiyāin, Bombay 1984, pp. 231, 232.) That Isibbasiyāiñ is not the text of the sect of Vardhamana is clear from its relatively different and obviously earlier agamic style of exposition. Also, in the earliest agamas of the Church of Vardhamāna, Vardhamāna Jina is given a prominent position: He has been addressed there as Nātaputta, Kaśyapa, maharşi, muni, mahāmuni, vīra, etc. and finally a whole hymn is addressed to him in the Sütrakrtänga calling him for the first time 'Mahavira' and proclaiming him as omniscient (sarvjña-sarvadarši). Nothing of this sort is noticeable in the Isibbasiyāin. It is respectable to, and considerate of the views of many sages of other sects as in a few examples inside the Sütrakrtănga. Also, the material of the Pārśva chapters is quite archaic and impresses as authentic. Such intense awareness on Pärsva's teachings is nowhere noticeable in the agamas of the sect of Vardhamana. (On the subject of Pārsva, there is some useful additional material in Pt. Dalsukh Malvaniya's paper, "Mahavira Samayanā Pārsvāpatyo" (Gujarati), Jaina Prakāśa, Utthana Mahaviranka, V.S.
1990 (A.D. 1934). 34. For details extracted from the biography of Pārśva by different authors collected by M. Mody and
discussed on comparative basis, see U.P. Shah's paper in this volume. 35. Only a few texts mention this as a place of the incident. 36. Identified with Ramnagar in Bareily District, U.P. 37.
तामील ईसाणिंदो बालतपस्सी विपूरणो चमरो।
अणसणमरणपभावा कमढो कमढासुरो जाओ ॥ ८३१ ।। (In the Painnayasuttais, pt. 2, Eds. Punyavijaya Muni and Pt. A.M. Bhojak, Jaina-Agama-Series
No. 17 (Pt. II), Bombay 1984, p. 75.) 38. Ed. A.M. Bhojak, Prakrit Text Society Series No. 3, Ahmedabad-Vārāṇasi, 1961, pp. 266-68. 39.
जथा सयंभू उदधीन से? नागेसु या धरणिंद माहु सेढे खोतोदगे वा रसवेजयंते
तवोवधाने मुनिवेजयंते ॥२०॥ (Ed. Muni Jambūvijaya, Jaina-Agama-Series No. 2, Bombay 1978, chap. 6, p. 66.) 40. For example in the Vyākhyāprajñapti, the Jivábbigama-sūtra, the Prajnapana-sutra, the Sthänänga
sūtra, and the Jñätädharmakatha. Details about these references are not so relevant in the present context.