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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Padmanabh S. Jaini
Jambu-jyoti
the continent of Bharata where he made their bodies small (to suit the Bharata region, i.e., against the rule that a bhogabhūmi person cannot come to the karmabhūmis) 19. (59)
21. They were anointed as king and queen in Mathurā, where they ate
meat and were reborn in hell (i.e., when in fact a person born in the bhogabhūmi is reborn only in heaven). For this reason, the Svetāmbaras consider this a miracle (acherā). They maintain that the lineage of the Haris (Harivamsa) derives from this family. (In the view of Digambaras, this story violates the rules pertaining to the twins born in a bhogabhūmi). (60-64)
22. A muni does not break the aparigraha-mahāvrata even when he keeps
14 requisites (upakaranas, such as pātras for collecting food and water, clothes, blanket, and so forth). (65-67)
23. Kāla is not a separate dravya. (68-69) 24. The ganadhara of Tirthankara Munisuvrata was a horse20. (70) 25. A muni may partake of meat under some special conditions. (70) 26. A muni should beg food from different houses and eat that food at his
place of residence. (70) 27. It is not a sin if one beats up a person who reviles your doctrine. (70) 28. Bharata was Brāhmi's brother, and yet he wanted to make her his
wife. (71) 29. Bharata became a kevalin while still living in the household21. (71) 30. Draupadī was a virtuous wife but yet she had five husbands. (71)
31. A mendicant disciple attained kevalajñāna while carrying his teacher
[called Candarudrācārya]on his shoulders. (72) 32. Mahāvīra was married22. (72) 33. Mahāvīra's son-in-law, called Jamāli, disputed with him23. (72) 34. Kapila was a kevalin and yet he danced24. (72)
35. Vasudeva (the father of Krsna) had as many as seventy-two thousand
wives. (73)