Indian Antiquary Vol 02

SR No.: 032494
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jas Burgess
Publisher: Swati Publications
Publication Year: 1984
Total Pages: 428
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 20 MB

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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
MAY, 1873.
PAPERS ON SATRUNJAYA AND THE JAINS.
BY THE EDITOR. II.-The Tirthankaras or Jinas.
Continued from page 17. The Jaina Tirthankaras or Arhantas only twelve yojanas from the site of Moksh a or -images of one or more of whom figure in final liberation. His next birth was as Vrisha. every temple--are twenty-four in number, each
| bha the Tirthaikara, the son of N Abhi having his separate chinha or cognizance, usu
by Maru Devi, king and queen of Saketa.
nagar. His incarnation was announced by the ally placed under the image, and many of them
fall, morning and evening for six months, of three distinguished by the colour of their complexion,
04, hundred and fifty millions of precious stones. -sixteen being yellow, two red, two white, two
The goddesses Sri, Kri, Dhriti, Kirtti, blue, and two black. In the temples, however, Budhi. and Lakshmi.were sent by Deven. the images are generally of white marble, with 1 dra to wait on Maru devi, during her pregeyes made of silver and overlaid with pieces of nancy, and feed her with the food of the Kalpa, glass. The following is a list of these saints, or all-bestowing tree of heaven, and at his birth, with the principal particulars related of
Devendra and all the inhabitants of every di. each :
vision of the universe came to render homage.
Devendra bathed the child with the contents 1. RISHABHANATHA or ÂDINÂTHA, called also
of the tree of milk, and gave him the name of Na bheya, Yuga disa, Yuga dijina,
Vrişhabba." + Rishabha Deva, Kausalika, Adis.
He is represented as of yellow or golden comvara, and Vrishabha Sena, of the race
plexion; has the bull (Vrisha) for his chinha or of Ikshwa ku, was the son of Nábhi by
cognizance, Chakreśvari for his sásanaMaru-devi. In the Adi Purana, a Jaina
devi. According to the commentator of the compilation ascribed to Jinasena Acharya,
Kalpa Satra, he was born at Kosala or Ayowho is said to have lived in the reign of Vi.
dhyâ, towards the end of the third age. He kramaditya, but who was probably much was the first king (Prathama Rája), first an. later,-Gautama the disciple of Mahavira
choret (Prathama Bhikshákara), and first saint relates to Srenika the king, the birth and
(Prathama Jina and Prathama Tirthankara). actions of Vșiş ha bha.
His stature, it is pretended, was 500 poles According to this authority,“Vrishabha was
(dhanush); and when he was inaugurated king first born as Mah & bala Chakravartti; be
his age was 2,000,000 great years (purva varsha). ing instructed in the Jaina doctrines, he was next
He reigned 6,300,000 years; and then resigning born in the second heaven as Lalita nga Deva. He was next born as Vajrajang ha, son of V&
the empire to his sons he withdrew to a state of jrab & hu, king of Utpala Kata, a city on
abstract purity: and having spent 100,000 years the Sitoda, one of the rivers of Mahameru, more in passing through the various stages of Having in this existence given food to & Jaina austerity and sanctity, he attained nirvana on a mendicant, he was born as a teacher of that faith mountain named Ashta pada, according to named Arya. From thence he returned to the Hemachandra the same as Kailasa, others second heaven as Swayamprabha deva, say on Satruñjaya, 3 years 8} months before the and was again born a prince, the son of the Raja end of the third age. Besides his children by of Sasinimahanagara, by the name of Su.
other wives, Rishabha had twins by each of his vedi. He again became a divinity as Achyu.
wives Sumangala and Sananda, -by the tendra, presiding over the 16th Swarga or
former & son Bharata the first Chakravarttit heaven. He was then born as Vajran&bhi, son of Vajrasena, king of Pundarikini.
-and a daughter Brâhmi; by the latter a nagara; having obtained great purity, he was
second son Bahubali, and Sundaria born as Sarvårthasiddhi Deva, in a part
daughter. The saint had altogether a hundred of the upper world above the 16th heaven, and children, for whose instruction he invented all • Wilson, Mackenzie Coll. Vol. I. pp. 144, 145.
--the 16th, 17th, and 18th Jinas; Sagera, the son of
Sumitra; Subhms called KArtavtrys; Padma, son of Pad+ Satrunjaya Mahatmya, I. 60. The twelve Chakra. mottars; Harishens of Hari; Jays of Vijaya; and Brahvarttis are: Bharata Arshabhi; Maghavan, son of Vijaya; madatta of Brahme; all of the race of Ikahwdku.-ColeSanatkumara, son of Asvasena; Santi, Kuntha, and An, brooke, Essays, Vol. II. 217; Asiat. Ros., Vol. IX. p. 315.