Story Of Rama In Jain Literature

SR No.: 022775
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: V M Kulkarni
Publisher: Saraswati Pustak Bhandar
Publication Year: 1990
Total Pages: 278
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 27 MB

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Pauma-Cariya of Vimala Suri
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CANTO LXXXVI :
Mathura. Rama tells him
Satru hna requests Rama to give him the town o that Maihu, thru er of Mathura, who is in possession of a divine sula is invinci ble Satrughna persists in his demand. Rama then agrees to his request on condition that he overpowers Madhu taking advantage of his loop-hole, viz., when he coes not have his Sula with him. He then marches against Mathurâ and kills Lavana, the son of Madhu. in the battle and overpowers Madhu himsel as he is not having s Śula with him Machu with the obj.ct o practising Sadhu-dharma tears out his hair and engages himself in Dharma-dhyana. After death he is born as a god. (Defeat of Madhu (-sundara ?)]
CANTO LXXXVII :
The Sula goes back to its master, and reports to him the news of Madhu's death at Satrughra's hands. Camara, the god, getting angry starts towards Mathu:& to punish the enemy. He goes to Mathura and creates terrible upasarga to the people there. The Fami'y-deity informs Satrughna of this. He with his army goes back to Saketa. [Upasarga (Calamity, Trouble) caused to Mathura]
CANTO LXXXVIII:
Canto LXXXVIII gives the past lives of Satrughna and Krtäntavadana, his general. [Description of the (past) lives of Satrughna and Krtantamukha)]
CANTO LXXXIX :
Canto LXXXIX tells of the arrival of seven monks at Mathura. Owing to their presence the epidemic of Cholera caused by Camara is rooted out Satrughna with his mother returns to Mathura. The monks ask him to practise true Dharma and see to it that each house in Mathura worships a Jina-idol after installing it therein. This done, there would not spread any disease. Satrughna does so and the city prospers. [Founding of Mathura (by Strughna)]
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CANTO XC :
Canto XC describes how Laksmana and Kama come to marty Vidyadhafa prin Cesses Manorama and Sridāma respectively. [Obtainment of Manorama (as wife by Lakṣmaṇa)]
55 The Canto contains a prophetic account as follows:
"Here in India after the t'me of the Nanda Kings the Law of the Jinas will become scarce. The number of heretics would swell, the kings would behave like thieves; people would slander the 'sadhus'; bad practices would be the order of the day; people would indulge in himsä, fa'se-hood and thefts; the ignorant people would bestow gifts on the ignorant, censuring the 'sadhus'....".
"Perhaps this refers more special'y to Magadha and the adjoining coutries, where under the reign of the Mauryas, Buddhism soon attained the position of a popular religich, ard must have become a formidable rival of Jainism." See Jacobi: Jainism (E. R. I. Vol. VII).