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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THE JAINA ANTIQUARY.
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the great wrestler ignorance, through the merit obtained from descipleship to whom, that Chandra Gupta was for a long time served by the forest deities."
(No. 54, dated 1128.)
Note incidentally that this verse identifies that Prabhachandra, who served Bhadrabahu on this Hill in his last days, with ChandraGupta, the famous Maurya Emperor known to Indian History. It also brings out the idea of spiritual culture as an affair of 'gnana,' a struggle and victory, perhaps justifying the name of 'Jaina Samaya,' a 'religion of conquest."
(b) Bhadrabahur-agrimah samagrabuddhi sampada Suddha Siddha Sasanam susabda bandha sundaram ; Iddha vritta Siddhır-atra bhadrakarmabhittapô Vriddhi vardhita prakırtır uddhadhë mahardhikah. (No. 108 of A. D. 1433.)
Trans: Bhadrabahu, the foremost by his acquisition of knowledge, (proclaimed) the doctrine of the siddhıs, beautiful with its combination of sweet words; famed for his character, dispeller of the delusions of those bound to the world, celebrated for the growth of his great penance, the highly renowned.'
From all this it is quite clear that, ever since the arrival of Bhadrabahu, this Katavapra Hill in the midst of an aweful forest, became a 'thirtha' associated in the minds of generations of people with dikshas or vows, and concentrations, and with sikshas or desciplines in knowledge and character and sadhanas or self-searching selfpurification resulting, by long growth of penance, even in 'siddhis' or attainments. Persons even abandoned the beautiful envirous of nature in the plain beyond the Hill, to take to its top to attain beatification. A very archaic inscription at the place refers to this fact:- com
Sri "Udyānaijjita-nandanam dhvanadalı-vyāsckta-raktōtpala vyāpi sribhrita-sālıpını ara disam kritvā tu bahyachalam