Siddhi Vinischay Tika Part 01

SR No.: 004038
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Anantviryacharya
Publisher: Bharatiya Gyanpith
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 686
Language: Hindi, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 15 MB

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INTRODUCTION he ordered his disciples to cross over the idol of Jina. Akalarka saved himself from this critical test by putting on a thread over the idol.
One night the teacher threw a bag of bronz vessels over the top floor where the students were sleeping, with the result that all of them woke up uttering the respective names of their deities. At this very time Akalanka uttered 'namo arahantānam etc.; this was enough to single out the 'culprit. Both the brothers were arrested and captivated in the top floor of the math. But they jumped down with the help of an umbrella and escaped.
On the way Nikalatka requested, nay, implored his brother to escape by hiding himself in the tank nearby so that he may not be caught by the pursuing armed guards. Nikalarka thought that his brother, an intellectual prodigy, could well serve the cause of Jaina literature. Akalanka, with inexpressible sorrow, submitted to the suggestion of Nikalarka. Nikalanka was running away but just then he was seen by a washerman. He too started running with Nikalarka, pursued by armed guards. At last both were slain by the horse-men.
Akalanka, after the completion of his studies, took to renunciation ; he was a forceful debater ; he impressed the royal courts by his orations at several places and thus influenced the public with the teachings of the Jinas. Once he went to the Ratnasañcayapura in Kalinga deśa. There, the queen Madanasundari, the wife of King Himaśītala, thought of the Jaina procession of chariots on the occasion of Aștāhnika. But this was not to be ; for a Buddhist teacher, Sanghasri came forward and interrupted by challenging any Jaina teacher to come forward and defeat him then alone the procession could proceed. The King accepted the proposal, and the Queen became very anxious. At last Akalanka accepted t challenge and defeated the Buddhist teacher. The success of Akalanka naturally led to the spread of Jainism?
In addition to this we have the episode of Akalanka given by Rice based on Räjävalikathe and some other stories : At the time of Buddhist suppression of Jainism at Kanchi the jaina Brāhmin Jinadāsa and his wife Jinamati had two sons, viz., Akalanka and Nikalarka. They sent both their sons, in disguise, to a Buddhaguru Bhagavaddāsa, since there was no Jaina teacher. The brothers progressed in their studies by leaps and bounds. Their progress led to the suspicion in the mind of the teacher.
1 vide NKC, vol. I. Intro. p. 28. 2 Jaina Hitaisi, vol. XI. Nos. 7-8. Art: Bhatta Akalankadeva ; See also NKC. vol.
I. Intro. p. 28.