Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 2 Vibhag 2

SR No.: 008003
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 802
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 20 MB

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Sunksatra had taken Dikså from the pious hands of śramana Bhagavāna Mahāvira. His ascetic life extended over many years
2. Vrata-grahaņa of Kuņda Kolika Srāvaka. From Kakandi, He went to the west, and having passed Srâvasti, he reached Kämpilya Nagara. He gave the Twelve Vows of a House-holder to a wealthy merchant named Kunda Kolika of Kampilya Nagara.
At Kâmpilya-pura Nagara, there lived a very wealthy person named Kunda Kolika and his wife Puspamitrå He possessed as much wealth and property as Kāmadèva Srāvaka viz 18 crore gold coins and 6 *Go-Kulas (cow=pens). Like Ananda Śrävaka and others, he had taken the Twelve Vows of a House-holder at the pious hands of Sramaņa Bhagavana Mahăvira.
One day at mid-night Kuņda Kolika went to his Asoka vādi (a garden of Asoka trees) and keeping an upper garment and his own signet-ring with him, he sat in excellent religious meditation on a clean marble slab. A god became visible there and having taken away, the upper cloth and signet-ring of Kunda Kolika, he at once flew into the sky, and remaining steady there, he said:-'O Kuņda Kolika ! The religious doctrine preached by Gośālaka Mankhali-putra is also good because it does not admit effort as one of the chief elements for the accomplishment of a desired object. It declares as follows:-Pecple do not accomplish thefr desired object, even if they made an effort. So, the accomplishment of every object depends on pre-arranged intentions. The religious doctrine preached by Śramaņa Bhagavana Mahāvıra is not good because it enjoins the use of an effort". When the god finished his saying Kunda Kolika politely questioned him.-o god ? If, what you say is quite true, now, tell me whether the celestial prosperity that you have acquired, has been attained through the medium of a continuons effort on
* Each Go-kula (cow pen) contained ten thousand (10000) COWS.