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। स्व: मोहनलाल बाठिया स्मृति ग्रन्थ
Maurya. Due to this many monks perished and many dispersed to other areas. The Jaina Sangha began to worry about the safety of holy Agamas. After the famine, the first council of monks was held at Pataliputra (modern Patna) under the leadership of Acārya Sthulibhadra to compile the vest Agamic literature. During this council, eleven Angas were recited, none of the monks present had in their memory the twelth Anga Drstavada. The only monk who had the knowledge of this was Ācārya Bhadrabahu, the guru of Sthulibhadra, but he had gone to Nepal to conduct Mahāprāna dhyāna (servere yogic activities) for twelve years. The Jaina congregation then decided to send Ācārya Sthulibhadra and his disciple monks to Nepal to acquire the knowledge of ten Drstivāda. Acārya Sthūlibhadra learned the knowledge of ten Pūrvas from Acārya Bhadrabahu. At that time, he exhibited some special supernatural powers, acquired by him from his guru. When the guru came to know of it, he declined to impart the knowledge of remaining four Purvas to Sthūlibhadra. After much persuasion he agreed to impart only the text of the remaining four Pūrvas but not their imports. Thus, Sthūlibhadra could memorise the entire texts but he could learn the meaning of only ten pūrvas but not their imports. Thus, Sthūlibhadra could memorise the entire texts but he could learn the meaning of only ten pūrvas and not all fourteen Purvas. This was the first attempt to compile the Agamas and this conference was known as the Pataliputra rendering. However, the Agamic literature was still not written and the basis of safeguarding it was still by oral tradition.
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