Religious Quest of India

SR No.: 011031
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: J N Farquhar, Griswold
Publisher: J N Farquhar Griswold
Total Pages: 365
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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JAINA MYTHOLOGY
The eleventh is more interesting, for it is Devak., the mother of Krişņa, at present working out her karma in the eighth Devaloka, who will be incarnate as Munisuvrata.
The dark god Krişņa himself, now in the third hell, is to become the twelfth Tirthankara, Amama.
Harasatyaki, the guru
Rāvana of Hindu mythology, when he leaves the fifth Devaloka, is to be incarnate as the thirteenth Tirthankara, Nikaṣāya.
Krişņa's brother Baladeva, now in the sixth Devaloka, will becoine Niṣpulāka, the fourteenth Tirthankara.
Sulasă, a man now in the fifth Devaloka, is to be the fifteenth, Nirmama.
We have not even yet come t the end of Hindu influence, for the stepmother of Krişņa, Rohiņi (the mother of Baladeva), who is in the second Devaloka, will be incarnate as Citragupta, the sixteenth Tirthankara.
Revati, a woman now in the twelfth Devaloka, who in her past life was married to Mahāśutaka, a famous Jaina layman, will become Sumadhi, the seventeenth Tirthankara.
The eighteenth was in her past life Subhala, and later a very chaste woman (if not an actual sati), Magavati, and is at the present time in the eighth Devaloka, from whence she will issue eventually as Samvaranatha.
The Hindu ascetic Dvaipayana, who set fire to Dvārakā, and is now a god, Agni Kumāra, will at last be incarnate as the nineteenth Tirthankara, Yasodhara.
The twentieth shows again the enormous popularity of the Krisna cult and the influence it wields over Jaina as well as Hindu thought, for it is that of Kunika, who in his past life was Javakumara, a relative of Krisņa's. At present he is in the twelfth Devaloka, but eventually he will issue forth to be born as Vijaya.
Nārada, who was a layman in the time of Rāvaṇa, and who is in the fifth Devaloka, will be the twenty-first Tirthankara, Mallinātha or Malyadeva.
Ambada, a former ascetic (or, according to other traditions,