Agam aur Tripitak Ek Anushilan Part 1

SR No.: 002621
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagrajmuni
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 744
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari, Agam, Canon, & History
File Size: 15 MB

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आगम और त्रिपिटक : एक अनुशीलन
[खण्ड : १ ऐतिहासिक तथ्यों के साथ भी संगति नहीं पातीं। “अजातशत्रु के राज्यकाल के आठवें वर्ष में बुद्ध का निर्वाण हुआ'', "अशोक का राज्याभिषेक बुद्ध-निर्वाण के २१८ वर्ष पश्चात् हुआ'२.---आदि मान्यताएँ इनमें प्रमुख हैं।
मगध में बिम्बिसार के पश्चात् सातवाँ राजा अजातशत्रु हुआ और अवन्ती में रिपूजय के पश्चात् प्रद्योत हुआ, जिनकी समसामयिता निर्विवादतया सिद्ध हो चुकी है। इनसे आगे के राजवंशों की चर्चा 'काल-गणना पर पुनर्विचार' में की गई है। इस प्रकार पुराणों के आधार पर प्राग्-बुद्ध राजाओं की काल-गणना पूर्णतया संगत हो
जाती है तथा सिलोनी ग्रन्थों की काल-गणना की असंगतता प्रमाणित हो जाती है । १. द्रष्टव्य-महावीर और बुद्ध की समसामयिकता, सम्पादकीय । २. हुल्ट्स ने इस विषय में सन्देह प्रकट किया है। देखें, Inscription of Asoka,
p. XXXIII. इस विषय में टी० डब्लू ० राइस डेविड्स का निम्न मन्तव्य भी द्रष्टव्य है:
According to the Raja-Parampara, or line of Kings, in the Ceylon chronicles, the date of the great decease would be 543 B.C., which is arrived at by adding to the date 161 B.C' (from which the reliable portion of the history begins) two periods of 146 and 236 years. The first purports to give the time which elapsed between 161 B.C. and the great Buddhist church council held under Asoka, and in the eighteenth year of his reign at Patna, and the second to give the interval between that Council and the Buddha's death.
It would result from the first calculation that the date of Ashoka's coronation would be 325 B.C. (146+161+18). But we know that this must contain a blunder or blunders, as the date of Ashoka's coronation can be fixed, as above stated, with absolute certainty, within year or two either way of 267 B.C.
Would it then be sound criticism to accept the other-earlier, period of 236 years found in those chronicles-a period which we cannot test by Greek chronology-and by simply adding the Ceylon calculation of 236 years to the European date for the cighteenth year of Asoka (that in cicra 249 B.C.) to conclude that the Buddha died in or about 485 B.C.?
I cannot think so. The further we go back the greater does the probability of error become, not less. The most superficial examination of the details of this earlier period shows too that