Jambu Jyoti

SR No.: 006503
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 2004
Total Pages: 448
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Philosophy, & Religion
File Size: 21 MB

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18. For some canonical references to Arya Vajra, see Prakrit Proper Names, Vol.II.,
pp. 660-661. 19. The Sthavirāvalī is given in sūtra 6 of the critically edited Nandi-sūtra, pp. 68, vss
23-24, Mahāvīra Jaina Vidyalaya, Bombay 1968, Edsn. Muni Punyavijaya,
Pt. Malavaniya, and Pt. A. M. Bhojaka. 20. "Suvarnabhumi meṁ Kālakācārya" (Hindi) published in Śrī Vijaya Vallabha-sūri
Smāraka Grantha, Bombay 1956. Also see, U. P. Shah, "Kālakācārya-A Revolutionary Jaina Monk," Bharati (Journal, B.H.U.) forthcoming issue as R.C. Majumdar Commemoration Volume; and “Jaina Anuśrutis About Kālaka" Journal
of Indian Museums, 1959. 21. K. D., Bajpai, “Three New Kushana Inscriptions from Mathurā,"Jaina Antiquary,
Vol.XVI. no.1. pp. 13-16. 22. M. A., Dhaky, “A Propos of the śāntinika Kula of Kautika Gana," Bhārati, New
Series no.2, (Vārānasi) 984, pp. 149-151. 23. The other alternative is that the Vairišākhā originated earlier than Arya Vajra.
For Ārya Vajra, see, Āgamic Index of Prakrit Proper Names, Ed. Dalsukh Malvania,
Ahmedabad 1972, part-II. pp. 660-661. 24. Incidentally, I would want to point out that 'hasti' seems to have been a suffix
added to different personal/pontiffical names, e.g. Nāga-hasti, Su-hasti, and others. Whether all monks with hasti ending names belong to one line or not is to be investigated. But the name Ghastuhasti as the teacher of Arya Manguhasti suggets that monks with hasti-ending names belong to the same line. Ghastuhasti is an old Prākrta form for Hastahasti and Ghastu may be a scribal error for Ghasta. Now, we have in the Paryusanā-kalpa sthavirāvali a few verses in the end after the prose Sthavirāvali ending with Phalgumitra, the disciple of Arya Pusyamitra; also the disciple of Ārya Ratha who was a disciple of Ārya Vajrasena, in turn the disciple of Arya Vajra. Amongst these nine verses, we have two names: Sthavira Hasta as well as Sthavira Ārya Hasti. But we do not know for certain that the monks mentioned in these nine verses are in order of teacher and the taught or are just names of some chiefs of the line of Phalgumitra. The verses are as under :
वंदामि फग्गमित्तं च गोयमंधणगिरिंच वासिदै । कोच्छं सिवभूइं पिय, कोसिय दोज्जंतकण्हे य ।।१।।
तं वंदिऊण सिरसा, चित्तं वदामि कास्सवं गोत्तं । नक्खं कासवगोत्तं, रक्खं पिय कासवं वंदे ॥२॥