Mahapurana Part 1

SR No.: 002722
Original Sutra Author: Pushpadant
Author: P L Vaidya
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1979
Total Pages: 560
Language: Hindi, Apbhramsa
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Mythology
File Size: 11 MB

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[ King Sepiya, on hearing the news of the arrival of Mahāvīra, proceeds along with his retinue to see him. After paying his respects to the Jina, the king asked his disciple Goyama to recite to him the Mahapurána which he does.
Goyama then begins his narration by first mentioning the divisions of time, the Kulakaras and their countribution to the civilization of the Universe. The last of these Kulakaras was Nāhi (Sk. Nabhi ), and his queen was Maru devī. Now Indra remembered that a Jina was to be born in their house and therefore ordered Dhanaya, i. e., Kubera, to make the town of Ujjhā ( Ayodhyā ) gay and pleasant so that it should be a fit place for the birth of the Jina. ]
1. 6 णं वररायवित्ति रिउदारिणि, a lady who took in her hand a कुवलय, i.e., a lotus flower, is compared to royalty (artrefafet ) which also holds ou, i. e., the globe of the earth, and chastises the enemies (froatfifot ).
2. 13 50oruffiga, (Jina ) who removes the misery ( 34f1-arifa of birth (UU) of the people. 14. zalagfaqat, the sun to the lotus, viz., the universe; the Jina gladdens the universe as the sun blooms the lotus.
3. 5-11. These lines contain a long epithet of Jina 950...fat A38usaforafafa **** , (Jina ) who lotus-like feet are washed by waters flowing from the gems in the coronets of our and other gods when they bend their heads ( facTHUT ) before him. 35 H UTST! #te, you will please lead
me to the fifth गति,ie., सिद्धावस्था, emancipation from संसार, the first four yfas being da, ara, fazia and H64.
4. 7a fi oja Hifafurfe fOTETT3, there is no beginning (17+ afs) and no end (a + ) to the list of the coming Jinas, i. e., the number of the future Jinas is infinite. 8-9 17 2013 etc. Time has no beginning and no end; i. e., it is infinite. Time is an associating cause of change in the Universe. It has no flavour, no odour, no colour and no weight. Time in abstract (fra
1 ) is mark d by its fleeting i. e., constantly passing ( tada). 12 9671%, Time as understood in our daily practice.
5. 36 पियकारिणितणएं, by महावीर who is the son of प्रियकारिणी, popularly known as त्रिशला. Compare कल्पसूत्र, 109, where the name given is पीइकारिणी., 10a difse, quà, T., is multiplied.
6. 10a 15973, #a; divisible, to be divided.
8. 4-5 353fcafor, i. e., orefront is defined as one in which strength, prosperity, height of the body, piety, knowledge, gravity and courage are on