Jainism in South India and Some Jaina Epigraphs

SR No.: 011025
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: P B Desai
Publisher: Jain Sanskruti Samrakshak Sangh Solapur
Publication Year: 1957
Total Pages: 495
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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JAINA MPIGRAPHR: PART II
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Verse 3. In this lineage hailed the eminent ascetic Chaturmukha alias Siddhāntadēva (Master of Philosophy) who was an abode of splendour and whose pure fame extended as far as the four oceans.
Verse 4. After many monks had distinguished themselves after him, Virañandi of spotless fame, foremost among the ascetics made himself illustrious.
Verse 5. Prominent among his spiritual disciples were the revered preceptors, Rāvanandi Saiddhāntika and Arhaņandi Saiddhāntika, a poet, a reciter, a disputant and an orator par excellence.
Verse 6. The preceptor Padmanandi Saiddhāntēša of unsullied renown was the disciple of Rāvaņandi.
Verse 7. His disciple was Munichandra of unimpeachable character, supreme among the ascetics and foremost among the great veterans of the Jaina philosophy.
Verse 8. His disciple was Kulabhūshaņa, an ornament of the family of Lord Jina. He had exterminated the tree of cupid and was a spade as it were in digging out the sprouting roots of the mass of egotism.
Verse 9. In the line of disciples who succeeded Arhaņandi, eminent was the sovereign ascetic Pushpadanta, a towering personality, supreme in austerities, whose exemplary conduct was an object of adoration to the followers of the Jaina faith.
Verse 10. Resplendent is the venerable Pushpadanta-Maladhāri who sanctified the lineage by his character. He was a veritable lion in splitting asunder the temples of the elephants of sensuality and a thunder-bolt in pulverizing the mountain of infatuation.
Verse 11. His disoiple was Subhakīrtti. He was knowledge personified, a veritable axe to the trees of evil doctrines, an earring of the Goddess of Learning, a consort of the Lady Fame; and the Lord of Moonlight as it were to the bed of blue lotuses which were the followers of the Jaina faith.
Verse 12. His disciple was Govardhana whose reputation was brilliant like the lustre of the moon. An object of worship among the faithful and the moon swelling the ocean of philosophy, he contributed to the prosperity of the Jaina religion.
Verse 13. His younger brother-disciple is Nēmichandra, lord of the Lady Fame shining like the autumnal moon, whose mind is averse to sensuality like the god Sankara.
Verse 14. Victorious is the ascetic Tribhuvanachandra, disciple of the illustrious Govardhana, who has cast away the insuperable sense of inertia