Treasury of Jain Tales

SR No.: 006762
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Shardaben Chimanbhai Educational Research Centre
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 468
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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life as monks, if later on again exert themselves in practising self-control finally attain, like the royal sage sailaka, salvation."
S. No. 15: The story is referred to in Avasyaka Niryukti (1164). This story has been quoted in Avasyaka Curni, pp. 456-460 verbatim from the Vasudeva-hindi (jaha Vasudevahindie). In the Isibhasiyam it has been stated that Vakkalaciri, Naraya, Bhāraddāja, Jannavakka and other non-Jain sages attained salvation. Also see Suyagadanga, 3.4 2ff; Causarṇa -Tikā64; Parisista-parvan, 1.91-258. In the Adikanda of the Rāmāyaṇa there is a story of the sage Rsyasṛnga who was brought up by his father in the woods. Later on, the king Lompada of Anga brought him to the city and married his daughter to him.
Professor D. Schingloff in this article "Die Einhornlegende" (The Unicorn Legend), Christina Albertina 11, 1971 gives references from the Jataka, ed. Fausboll, 526 (Vol. V. p. 123-209); the Mahāvastu, E. Senart, Paris, 1882-97, Vol. III, p.143-52; the Bodhisattvāvadānakalpalatā, of Ksemendra, No. 65, ed P.L Naidya, Vol II, Buddhist Sanskrit Texts, No. 23, p. 411-20; the Bhadrakalpavadāna No.33; the Buddhacarita of Asvaghosa, SB.E., Vol. 49; IV, 19; the Mahabharata. Aranyakaparvan, Vol. 3, Poona, 1942; 3.110.1-3.113.25, as well as the Tibetan and Chinese sources. He traces the unicorn story in the Gilgamesch Epic found in the Babylonian sources and compares it with the story of Valkkacirin of the Jains. Gilgamesch wants to make Enkidu, who lived in a forest, as his friend. For this purpose he sends a prostitute to fetch him. The porstitute undressed herself exhibiting her bosom to Enkidu. He was very much satisfied and forgot the place where he was born