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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Ganadhara Sudharman submitted thereafter as follows:
"Bhante ! When will the Sun Omniscience (kaivalyasūrya) go out"?
Mahavira - "Twelve years after me, Gautama will attain perfection, and 20 years after me, you yours attain perfection. Sixty-four years after me, your disciple monk Jambu will attain perfection. In fact, he will be the last omniscient personality (of this phase). Jambu will be followed, in due order, by Prabhava, Sayyambhava, Yasobhadra, Sambhutivijaya, Bhadrabahu and Sthūlabhadra, all of whom will be the masters of 14 Pūrvas. Among these, only Sayyam!: haya will be the author of Desaveyali-. ya which he will write because of his pūrva-knowledge(18).
As the final moments of Mahavira's liberation drew near, the seat of the Indra was shaken. With the famil of his gods, he came down to the spot. With tears in his eyes, he submitted,
"Bhante ! At the time of your entering into the womb, at your birth, initiation and at your attainment of omniscience, the asterism Hastottarā was in conjunction with the moon. At that time, an evil star named Bhasma-graha is about to come up. It will cast its bad influence on the star at your birth and stand in the way of the future progress of your monastic order. After 2000 years, when this evil star will be separated from the star at your birth, then the sra manas, the nirgranthas will be adored and honoured. So till this evil star continues to haunt the star at your birth, I pray, you hold on your life-span in tact".
On this submission, the comments of Bhagavān Mahā. vira were as follows:
"Sakra! Life-span can never be increased. It has never happened like that, nor will it ever happen like that. The non-bracing phase of the time-cycle will by itself be a handicap to the future progress of my order; but this is unavoidable"(19).