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i Vāda Nihnavavāda
:45. Tisyagupta ( the pupil of) caturdasapurvi Vasu of the GunaSilaka caitya in (the city of ) Rajagriha ( was convinced ) by Mitraśrı in tlie city of Amalakalpā by (offering himi) lumps of boiled rice etc. 12333-2334).
टीका-३८-३९ व्याख्या-श्रीमन्महावीरजिनेन तदा षोडशवर्षाणि केवलज्ञानस्योत्पादितस्याभूवन् । ततश्च राजगृहापरनाम्नि ऋषभपुरे नगरे जीवप्रदेशिकदृष्टिःसमुत्पनेति । कथमुत्पन्ना ?। इत्याह-राजगृहे नगरे गुणशिलके चैत्ये चतुर्दशपूर्विणो वसुनामान आचार्याः समागताः, तेषां च तिष्यगुप्तो नाम शिष्यः। स च तत्र पूर्वगतमालापकं वक्ष्यमाणस्वरूपमधीयानो वक्ष्यमाणयु भिर्विप्रतिपन्नोऽसंबुद्धःपरिहृतो गुरुभिर्विहरनामलकल्पायां नगर्या गतः। तत्र मित्र श्रीनाम्ना श्रावकेण कूर-पिउडादिना कूर-सिक्थादिदानेन प्रतिबोधित इत्यर्थः ॥२३३३ -२३३४॥
D. C. Sixteen years had passed since the Tirthankara ( Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra) had attained Kevala Jõāna.
1. Like his predecessors, śramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra also had got his preachings composed in books. His Gaņa dharas or principal pupils arranged his preachings in twelve Angas. Of these twelve Angas, the twelfth Anga waa divided into fourteen Parvas. Both the sects of the Jainas-the Svetambaras as well as Digambaras-accept these Purvas as the oldest Sacred Works of the Jaina Canon.
The tradition of the Svetambaras about these Purvas is this :-The fourteeu Pūrvas had been incorpotated in the Twelfth Ainga (the Dristivada) which was lost before 1000 A. V. But a detailed Table of its contents and consequently of the Parvas has survived in the Fourth Anga-the Samavāyānga and in the Nandi Sūtra. (Vide Weber. Indisch Studien XVI p. 341 ).
We are further told by the tradition that Sthavira Arya Jambù Swami was the last Kevali and Sthavira Sthūlabhadraji was the last śruta-kerali who knew all the twelve Angas along with the fourteen Parvas with their meanings and cxplanations of intricate subjects in his memory.
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