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.
(Vol. V
makes them careful lest they should per chance injure even a tiny insect. The practice of “Gridhra-pinchacha," one of the most famous of the successors of Bhadrabāhu, in their gana, is followed to this day by the ascetic who sweeps the ground before him with a pea-cocktail broom before he moves along the way. In some of the more enlaborate inscriptions, on the Hill, this famous sage Gridhra-pincha-ācharya is thus celebrated :
Trans:-(1) " then there was Umāswāti munisvara, who had the
name acharya following after the word Griddhra-pincha In that time no other was equal to him in understanding the ' padartha' (No. 42, dated 1117 A. Ci
Trans :-(2) "The honourable Umāswāti, he was the yatisa who
published the Tatvartha Sutra which is a guide to the worthy in following the path that leads to Muktı" (No. 105 of 1398 A, C.)
Trans :-(3) “He, was he not the yogi devoted to the protection
of living creatures who assumed 'the wings of a kite whence from that time forth the wise call him achan adding to it, after his name Grddhara-Pincha" (No. 108 of 1433 A.C.)
Several other customs among Jainas are traced to this original ideas of protection of living creatures' But this is not all of the Jaina idea or descipline of Ahimsa. In its degeneration into the mere custom of the asctic sweeping before him with a "peacockbroom," it may have become an object of redicule of the Hindus, as an accentricity or 'bhēshajam', but in its essence, it finds its echoes in the Vaidika Samaya as well The religion of Budha is said to be the religion of 'ahımsa' or 'Daya' or 'Compassion' par excellence, but a deeper knowledge of the Jñana marga of the Upanishadas or of the Jaina Samaya will reveal that it is equally an essential element in these equally, if not more, ancient faiths or schools of Spiritual attainment.' In the saka year 1050 ( as stated in