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: HADI MATA
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compared to Samayācāra which has been propounded by Sri Sankarā. cārya in his famous hymn 'Saundaryalahari'. His other works propounding Sāmayikamata are Anandalahari, Prapancasāra, Lalitātrisati-Bhasya as has been stated by the learned author of 'Sākta Sampradāya' in Gujarati (See P. 33 and P. 100). It must be noted however that Panchatattva worship is not countenanced in Jainācāra in any form whatsoever. At P. 69 Sākta Sampradāya it is said "only in Jainācāra these things i. e. Panchatattvas have no place."
HADI MATA Strictly speaking there are no distinctions made amongst Jains in respect of Matas based on the worship of different deities or on different Mantras as they begin with the letters 'Ka' or 'Ha' etc. As however in what is termed the Jaina Bija "Arham' the principal letter is 'Ha' and because 'Hrim' is considered an equally important Bija amongst Jains indicating 24 Tirthankaras with their male and female attendant deities and is the central Bija in Rșimandala Yantra and because 'Hrīm' is also the 'Emāksarī Mantra' of Sri Padmavati identified with Tripura the deity principally worshipped in Hadi Mata (See P. 53 ante) and Kashmere Sampradāya and because in Sūrimantra, the principal Mantra amongst the Jains, the Bijas adopted along with 'Om'and 'Hrim' and 'Arham' and not any Bija beginning with the letter 'Ka' the Jains may be generally speaking said to follow Hadi Mata without thereby suggesting acceptance thereof with all its implications.
EARLIER MANTRASIDDHAS The name of Sri Gautamaswāmi stands at the forefront of Mantrasiddhas as he was the first Ganadhara of Sri Mahāvīra and composed Sūrimantra under his direction. He was possessed of all kinds of miraculous powers (Labdhis). Exercising one of them he flew up the Astāpada Mountain unapproachable by ordinary beings, and made
* See Niryāņakalikā P.7 for principal rules of Jainācāra. Digambara Jains also hold identical views on Mantra and Acāra, see the article by Pt. K. Bhujabali Sastri entitled Jain Mantra-śāstra', Jain Siddhānta Bhāskara Vol. IV, 3, P. 135 ff.