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Arhat Parsva and Dharanendra Nexus
is the earliest to have been written on this subject, the next being the Uttarapurāņa of Gunabhadra (c. A.D. 850). These two Southern Nirgrantha works apparently are the source for most of the later narrative works in South on the legendary life of Pārsva.
From all these references it is clear that a direct mention of Dharanendra's nexus with Pārsva is first met with only in the Nirgrantha-Digambara purānas and not in the Northern Nirgrantha canonical works nor in their exegetical literature. 10 The only Northern work which says that Pārśva and Mahāvīra alone of the Tirthankaras had to encounter the upasarga-tormentations. This is the Sattari-saya-thāna (Saptatisata-sthāna); and it is a medieval work, indeed fairly posterior to Southern Nirgrantha notices.
NOTES AND REFERENCES
1. Bhagavatī-sūtra (Angasuttāni, Vol. II), 5.255; 9.122, Ladnun V.S. 2031 (1975). 2. Ibid., 5. 255. 3. Isibbasiyāin, ch. 31, L.D.S. No. 45, Ahmedabad 1974. 4. See Intro. to Isibhāsiyāiñ, 1. 5. "Mahāvīra Samayanā Pārsvāpatyo", (Gujarāti), Jaina Prakāśa, Utthāna Mahāvīranka, V.S. 1990
(1934 A.D.), 46. 6. Kalpasutra, 148-160, 4th edn., ed. Devendra Shastri, Udaipur 1985. 7. Published in the Arga Suttani, Vol.I, Delhi V.S. 2031/A.D. 1975. See note 1. 8. Included in the Viseșāvasyaka-bhāsya, Vol.II, L.D. Series Vol.14, Ahmedabad 1968. 9. Cf. Madhusudan Dhanky (M.A. Dhaky), "Dakṣiṇātya Nirgrantha Paramparā ke Kucha Granthon
ki Aitihāsika Samasyāyen", Sandbana, V (1992), 15-19. 10. See the word 'Dharana" in Mohanlal Mehta, Prakrit proper names (L.D. Series No. 28), Ahmedabad
1970; and "Dharaṇendra” in the Jainendra Siddhanta Kośa (Bharatiya Jñāna Pītha), New Delhi 1992.
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