Jain Siddhant Bhaskar

SR No.: 010062
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Jain, Others
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1940
Total Pages: 143
Language: Hindi
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 7 MB

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(which was probably the same as the Navilūra); and the most important of all and perhaps the orignal, the śri Mala.' Little is known about the Kelatara Sangha but of that of Navılara mention is made of the great Anantamati Guruva Nardı and his disciple Nandı Munīsa, who belonged to this congregation at various times. It is interesting to note that the Mayūra Sangha is called a Grāma Sangha, probably indicating its origin. But the most prominent of all these was evidently the śri Mula, the leaders of which have traced their leadership to Mahavira and Bhadrabāhu It was customary for them when addressed to be given their spiritual designation especially in contemporary inscriptions. Kukkutäsana Maladhārı Deva, for example, is said to have belonged to the Arhata Samaya, (which was from the beginning the Mala Sangha) the Kondakundānvaya, of the Desiya Gana and the Pustakagachha. They had spiritual as well as lay disciples. The spirtual disciple of this monk was the famous Subhācandra Siddánta Deva, while his lay follwer was Ganga Camupati as is recorded in an epigraph dated A D. 1117.3
One of the most important aspects of Jaina monasticism was the nature of their corporate of life, for it must be remembered that the Jaina monks lived in spiritual brotherhoods in select places. Bhadrabahu is recorded to have arrived at "a country counting many hundreds of villages, completely filled with the increase of people, money, gold, grain, cows, buffaloes and goats."4 In such places the Jaina monks lived, especially on the bounty of the pious rich as well the poor Grants of land were generally made at the rcqucst of the Jaina monks, although voluntary contributions were not unknown. A record of A. D. 670 reveals how a plot of land was granted at the request of one Arasi, obviously a Jaina monk and the details of the plot are also specified. It is interesting to know how
| 28. p 118,29. p. 119. 2 27, 29, p 118 3. 45, p. 126 4 1. p. 115 5. 24, p. 118.