Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 5

SR No.: 008006
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication
Publication Year: 1989
Total Pages: 616
Language: English, Sanskrit
Classification: Book_English, Biography, History, & Religion
File Size: 14 MB

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daśāngıtvam caturdasa pūrvitvam ca sūtrarrātragrahaņéspi syāditi tadapihārthamāna-were experienced in the knowledge of the fourteen Pūrvas get. They are previously described as well-versed in the twelve Angas, which include the fourteen Pūrvas; they are further described as Caturdasa pūrviņah acestaoexperienced in the knowledge of the fourteen Pūrvas gå, with the object of establishing the supremacy of the knowledge of the fourteen Pūrvas in the Twelve Angas. Besides, these Pūrvas were composed before; they are full of meanings of :Mantras 9-Spells, incantations-and many other sciences and they are very authoritative and hence their supreme importance. The possession of the knowledge of the twelve Angas and of the fourteen Pūrvas may relate only to the possession of the knowledge of the words only of the Sūtras; and to remove that doubt, the author says that the eleven chief disciples were phanfufaETEITTI-Samatta-gani pidaga-dijāragā, harfurfizfar Samasta-gani-pitaka dhārakāh-TUTTSTInfa Tut-Taratat fackfaq-TRATOTEमिव गणिपिटकं-द्वादशांगी, तदपि न देशत स्थूभद्रस्येव, किंतु, समस्तं, patarcafaqificata, agitafra, atsen a y Gano' syāstīti Gani-Bhāvācāryastasya pilakamiva-ra ia karaņdaka miva Ganipitakam -Dvādaśāngi, tadapi na d śatah Sthūlabhadrasy éva, kim tu, samastam. sarvākshar sannipātitvāt, taddhărayanti sūtrato'rthatasca yé té tathā-He who is at the head of a Gana 170,-an assemblage of ascetics-is called a Gani stuit, a Bhāyācārya; alandsforrei RIFICA -
TUBA -Eigit--aarafa #a-were possessors of the whole treasure-box of Knowledge, possessed by a Gani or Bhāyācārya-Dvadaśāngi-like a little-box of wicker- work containing genis, not a portion of it, as was done by Mahātma Sthūlabhadra, because they knew all the words and the various combinations of the words of the Sūtras and their meanings and they went to Moksa araftal-acquired Liberation-became entirely destitute of all miseries-at Rājagrına, while remaining as firm as a tree, and observing a fasting without water for one month.