Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006540
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 635
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English & Culture
File Size: 18 MB

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JAIN MANTRAVADA AND CAITYAVASIS: MIRACULOUS WORKS
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MIRACULOUS WORKS The following works which are with some variations enumerated in Țhaņānga (X, 3, 755) Nandisūtra (Sūtra 43, p. 202) and Vyavaharasūtra (X, 27–28) and Pakkhisūtra are said to be such that, when properly recited once twice or thrice, they cause without the least desire on the part of the reciter, the deity described in the particular work to appear before the Sadhu reciting the same. The deity would then desire the saint to ask for a boon, which being not desired by him (he having renounced all desires), the deity would after making obeisance to him retire. The said works are:-(1) Aruņovavāya (2) Varuņovavāya (3) Garulovavāya (4) Dharaṇovavāya (5) Velandharovavāya (6) Vesamaņovavāya (7) Devindovavāya (8) Nāgapariyāvaņiyā. There are other works viz. (1) Teyanisagga (2) Chāraṇabhāvanā (3) Asīvisabhāvaņā (4) Diţțhivisabhāvanā. (See Vyavahārasūtra X,29) and Praśnavyākaraṇa* (different from the 10th Anga bearing the same name. See Nandīsūtra, Sūtra 54) by recital of which miraculous powers such as engendering fire or causing aerial flight or destruction by curse or gaze and answers to questions in various ways are obtained. Utthānasuya and Samutthănasūya are works by recital of which respectively houses, villages and towns become deserted, or are reinhabited when recited with that intention once, twice or thrice. All these works must have been very old as appears from their references mentioned above. They are however lost now.
PARŚVĀPATYAS AND NIMITTA There is one more fact worth mentioning here which leads us to infer Sri Parsvanāth's connection with Mantras and Vidyās. In the available Jain Canonical literature 'Parsvāpatyas' or spiritual descen
*A work of 400 gathas (with several commentaries named Lilāvati, Cūdamaņi, Jyoti and one without name) which may possibly be portion of Praśņa vyäkarana mentioned here and which is called Jayaprabhsta by Mr. C. D. Dalal through mistake-is still in a Pätana Bhandara written on a palm-leaf manuscript. See article entitled "Apaņā Prabhsto' by Sri Kalyāņavijaya-Jain Yuga I, P. 93.