Heart of Jainism

SR No.: 011099
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publisher: Mrs Sinclair Stevenson
Publication Year: 1915
Total Pages: 365
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 29 MB

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JAINA MYTHOLOGY
277 The eleventh is more interesting, for it is Devaki, the mother of Kțişņa, at present working out her karma in the eighth Devaloka, who will be incarnate as Munisuvrata.
The dark god Krişna himself, now in the third hell, is to become the twelfth Tirthankara, Amama.
Harasatyaki, the guru of Rāvaņa of Hindu mythology, when he leaves the fifth Devaloka, is to be incarnate as the thirteenth Tirthankara, Nikaṣāya.
Krişna's brother Baladeva, now in the sixth Devaloka, will become Nispulāka, the fourteenth Tirthankara.
Sulasā, a man now in the fifth Devaloka, is to be the fifteenth, Nirmama.
We have not even yet come to the end of Hindu influence, for the stepmother of Kțişņa, Rohiņi (the mother of Baladeva), who is in the second Devaloka, will be incarnate as Citragupta, the sixteenth Tīrthankara.
Revati, a woman now in the twelfth Devaloka, who in her past life was married to Mahāśutaka, a famous Jaina layman, will become Sumādhi, the seventeenth Tirthankara.
The eighteenth was in her past life Subhala, and later a very chaste woman (if not an actual satī), Magavatī, and is at the present time in the eighth Devaloka, from whence she will issue eventually as Sariivaranātha.
The Hindu ascetic Dvaipāyana, 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 Kțişņa cult and the influence it wields over Jaina as well as Hindu thought, for it is that of Kuņika, who in his past life was Javakumāra, a relative of Krişna'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 Rāvana, and who is in the fifth Devaloka, will be the twenty-first Tirthan. kara, Mallinātha or Malyadeva.
Ambada, a former ascetic (or, according to other traditions,