Mahavira Smruti Granth Part 01

SR No.: 010530
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kamtaprasad Jain, Others
Publisher: Mahavir Jain Society Agra
Total Pages: 363
Language: Hindi
Classification: Smruti_Granth
File Size: 9 MB

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Thc Nirvānahaliha supports this form also as it refers to a many-armed form, black in appearance, and carrying the damart, thc mace, the goose and such other Teapons.'
The same text further calls him black, white, golden, grey or tawny in complexion and adds that he wears a japā (matted hair ) and that bis hair are curly (barbara). The snake Väsuki has become his sacred thread while the Taksasa Nāga is worn as the girdle and the Sesa as the necklace. Threeeyed, he covers his body with a lion-skin and sits on a corpse while the dog serves as his vehiclc The Ksctrapala is surrounded by the eight Bhairavas-Anande and others--and 611ty-four Yoginis. He 18 known by various ucll-known cpithets such as Kalamegka, Meghanada, Giriodārana, Khaijaka, Bhima, gomuhlia, Bhtisara, Duritavidārapa, Duritāri, Priyankara, Pretanatha and thic libc
Thc Nalāyana of Manikyacandra suri describes a form of Ksetrapāla, herce and naked in appearance, with red sandal marks all over the body and dancing swiftly with thc Jingling of bells tied to the girdle The deity carried the sword, the shicld, the human skull and had the dog as his vāhana. This seems to be a four-armed varicty of the deity,
Thc Ksetrapāla is knoyn to the Digambara sect as well. Gúnabhadra in bis Brhat-stapana prescribes oil for bathing this deity The Ksetrapāla 15 said to have the park of the luna image on bis forehead.' But the iconography of this desty in the Digambara traditions is supplied by the authors of
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Acaradınakara, page 181. 6 Nalayana, 8-2 28-33 Marukyacandra Suzi lved in 13th Century v S. Also see Mantradhırājakalpa of Sagaracandra, 3 120 (published in Manträdhirāja-Cintamani, ed by Sārābhāi Nawāb)
i ! 7 Brhat-sapana of Gunabhadra, verscs 62-64, published 10 Ablasekapätka-sangraha p.28 The date of Gunabhadra 18 uncertan but the work seems to have been composed between 1000 and 1200 V. S Gunabbadra, the author of Brhatenapang, florisked before Afadhara