History of Jainism

SR No.: 006741
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: U K Sharma
Publisher: D K Print World
Publication Year: 2002
Total Pages: 304
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 10 MB

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Pārsvanātha and Vardhamāna Mahāvīra
of Pāñcāla. 46 According to the Kalpasūtra, Pārsvanātha spent thirty years of his life as a householder in great happiness and splendour; after that he renounced all his wealth and became an ascetic.47 He attained the perfect knowledge of a prophet after intense meditation for eighty-four days. After becoming a kevalin he lived for about seventy years in the state of most exalted perfection and sainthood. 49 He attained mokṣa on the top of Samet Sikhara.50
From the biographical details of Pārsvanātha, we learn that he visited Ahicchatra,51 which is Ramnagar in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh;52 Hathināura5 or Hatthināpura,54 which is Hastinapura in the Meerut district of Uttar Pradesh;55 Srāvastī,56 which is Sahet-Mahet in Gonda-Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh;57 Rāyagiha,58 which is Rajgir in Bihar-Sharif district;59 Kośāmbī,60 which is Kosam near Allahabad;61 Sāgeya;62 which is Saket or Ayodhya;63 Amalakappā," which is a place near Vaiśālī in Vaiśālī
46. JSS, p. 14. 47. Kalpasūtra 6.149-69; CHI, I, p. 154; HJM, p. 60. 48. Ibid.; Ibid.; Ibid. 49. Ibid.; Ibid.; Ibid. 50. Ibid.; Ibid.; OISJ, p. 66. 51. HJM, p. 60; JAA, I, p. 16; LDJC, p. 19. 52. HGAI, p. 63; GD, p. 2; GEAMI, I, p. 8. 53. JAA, I, p. 16. 54. LDJC, p. 19; HJM, p. 60. 55. HGAI, p. 81; JAA, I, p. 16. 56. HJM, p. 61; LDJC, p. 19; JAA, I, p. 16. 57. HGAI, p. 124; GD, p. 190; ibid. 58. HJM, p. 60; LDJC, p. 19; ibid. 59. Ibid. fn. 17; JAA, I, p. 16; HGAI, pp. 254-5. 60. HJM, p. 60; JAA, I, p. 16; LDJC, p. 19. 61. HGAI, p. 99. 62. HJM, p. 61; JSS, p. 9; LDJC, p. 19; JAA, I, p. 16. 63. HGAI, p. 67. 64. HJM, p. 60; LDJC, p. 19; JAA, I, p. 16.
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