Tirthankar Mahavir

SR No.: 020834
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Jaybhikkhu Sahitya Trust
Publication Year: 2003
Total Pages: 235
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 57 MB

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Tirthankara Mahavira's Congregation
Nine units of monks. Eleven chief disciples (Indrabhuti, etc.). • 14,000 monks (Indrabhuti, etc.) who accepted vows of asceticism directly from Mahavira. 36,000 nuns (under the supervision of the chief nun Chandanabala) who accepted vows of asceticism directly from Mahavira. 1,59,000 laymen (Shankha, Shataka, etc.) who accepted twelve vows of a Jaina lay devotee. The Jaina laymen devotees who accepted no vows or less number of vows were lacs in number. 3,18,000 laywomen (Sulasa, Revati, etc.) who accepted twelve vows of a Jaina lay devotee. The Jaina laywomen devotees who accepted no vows or less number of vows were lacs in number. • 300 monks who had the knowledge of fourteen purva works. • 1300 monks who had the supernatural power of perceiving covered or spatially and temporally remote material things. 700 omniscient monks. • 1400 omniscient nuns. 700 monks having supernatural power of assuming any physical form. • 500 monks having higher type of supernatural power of reading other people's minds. ~ 400 monks expert in debates. • 700 monks who attained liberation in that very birth. 1400 nuns who attained liberation in that very birth. ~ 800 monks who attained after death the anuttara heaven, and then after one birth, liberation. • 10,089 ordinary monks. $ 14,000 casual or scattered monks. • 14,000 monks who were selfenlightened.
The 'three jewels' (triratna)
& Devotees Uttar Pradesh, Mathura,
Rankali Tila
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