Agama And Tripitaka Comparative Study

SR No.: 022804
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagaraj Muni
Publisher: Today and Tomorrows Printers and Publishers
Publication Year: 1986
Total Pages: 804
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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Monk Jamali recovered after some time. Starting from Srāvasti, he came to Campa. At that time, Bhag - vān Mahāvira was also encamped at the same city. Jamāli came to Mahavira and said,
"Many of your monks are ordinary persons, not keva - lms. But I am fully equipped with kevala knowledge and kevala vision. I am an ar hat, Jina, and I am moving about as an omniscient person".
Ganad hara Gautama protested. He said,
"The knowledge of an omniscient person is never obstructed by a mountain or any other thing. If you are a kevalin, please give reply, to my question: Is the sphere eternal for transcient? Is Jiva eternal or transcient"?
Jamali could give no reply. He held his tongue, Addressing him, Bhagavān Mahāvira said,
"Jamali ! You should know that many of my disciples can give reply to these questions. Still they do not declare themselves to be Jinas or kevalins."
Jamāli did not relish these words of Mahāvira. He stood up and left the place. He lived separately, and in this manner, he spent many years of his life implanted in falsehood built up by an erroneous logic. In the end, he died of starvation without discussing his sins and without performing pratikra mana, and he was born in a heaven named Lāntaka as a junior god (kilvişika).
When Jamāli was still alive, Priyadarsanā (she was Mahavira's daughter and Jamali's wife) arrived at Sravasti with her nuns. There she took shelter in the workshop of a potter named Dhanka. Dhanka was a devoted follower of Mahāyira. In order to reawaken her and reclaim her to the right path, (for, like her husband, she, too, was misguided and rebelled against the monastic order and broke away from it), the potter set fire to her samghāti. As it was burning, Priyadarsanā shouted,
"The samghāti is burnt".