Comparative Study of Mantrashastra

SR No.: 006575
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
Publication Year: 1944
Total Pages: 376
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, L000, & L020
File Size: 21 MB

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JAIN MANTRAVADA AND CAITYAVASIS:TEMPLE-BUILDING ACTIVITY
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strength of soul adorned the country of Gujarat with temples. Of them the chief were Nāga, Vinda, Mammața, Durga, Acharya Agnisarma and the sixth Vateśvara. Vateśvara got a beautiful Jain temple constructed at Akašavapra* seeing which even an angry man would be calmed. Another pupil of his named Tattvācārya was possessed of the lustre of austerity and character, with which he destroyed sin and darkness of ignorance-true to his name like the Sun; and his pupil (Udyotanasūri) bearing the appellation of Dākṣinyacinha has composed this story of Kuvalaymālā being inspired by the sight of Hridevi. + "Achārya Virabhadra and Haribhadra were his Vidyāgurus the former in respect of sacred scriptures and the latter in respect of logic. From a coin found by Cunningham bearing words 'Sri Mahārāja Hariguptasya' on the obverse and a Kalasa with flowers i.e. Kumbhakalasa on the reverse, and from the fact that such a Kalasa is unmistakably the sign of Jainism, it appears that he must be a Jain. As the coin is supposed to belong to the sixth century of the Vikrama era he must probably be the same as Hariguptācārya mentioned in the colophon quoted above and a contemporary of the famous Toramāņa of the Hūņas. The readers will note that the temple building activity was a special characteristic of Caityavāsis and that it was thus carried on in the 6th and 7th centuries of the Vikrama era.
* This is modern 'Vadnagar alias Anandpur in Gujarat' according to Sri Jinavijaya but 'Amarkot alias Ambarkota' on the border of Sind according to Sri Kalyāņavijaya. + According to Ācāradinakara pp. 235 ff. Śri, Hri, Dhști, Kirti, Buddhi and Lakşmi are the six deities who are invoked to bring prosperity to the worshipper. Of the well-known six objects of Mäntric worship they are worshipped for Puşti: " et
ag: #fagfedezte Goagiaa: 016 igre aiføå granny gar li" See loc. cit. for Dhyanas of Hridevi and the other five deities. tat291-" ixafezaaza gratuite विभूषितकराधृतरक्तवस्त्रा। हीघोरवारणविघातनवाहनाढया पुष्टीच पौष्टिकविधी विदधातु नित्यम् ॥" So, Sri Bhagavatīsūtra, 1X Sataka, 11 Uddeśa, 430 Sūtra records a present of the idols of these six deities on the occasion of marriage.