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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MAY, 1873.]
THE TIRTHANKARAS.
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the arts and sciences. Thus he taught drama- Siddharthå, is also of yellow complexion : tic poetry to Bharata, grammar to Brahmi, he has an ape (plavaga ) for his characteristic and arithmetic to Sundari. It may be noticed symbol; and Kalika is the goddess who that Rishabha and his father and son occur in serves him. His stature was 300 poles, and the Parânic lists, where N Abhi is the son of his age 5,000,000 years; he was born at AyoAgnidra king of Jambudvipa son of Priyadhyâ, and his nirvana took place on Samet vrata, king of Antarveda. The kings of Sikhar, ten lakhs of krôrs of sågaras of years various other nations also derived their descent after the preceding. from him. The Mâhâtmya says Vimala vâ 5 . SUMATI, song of Megha and Mañhana was the first of the ancestral fathers. I gali , also of yellow complexion, has a curlew His son was Chakshushmân a father of (kerauncha) for his cognizance and Mahakali Abhichandra, whose son Prasenajita was for his Devi. He was born at Ayodhyâ, lived the father of Maradeva, also called Nabhi ; 4,000,000 years, and his moksha occurred also and at the end of the third spoke of the Avasarat Samet Sikhar, nine lakhs of krörs of ságaras pirí age, the Lord of the World, through his om
after the fourth Jina. nipotence, took birth in the womb of Nábhi's wife 6. PADMAPRABHẢ was son of Sridhara by Marudevî, under the name of Rishabh a, or Susimâ ; born at Kausambhî, of the same Vrish a bhasena. It is Rişhabha's image race as the preceding, but of red complexion. erected by Bahubali that imparts its peculiar His mark is the lotos (abja), and his Devi is sanctity to Satruñjaya.t
Syam. His height was 200 poles, and his 2. AJITANATHA was son of Jitas Atru by
| age 3,000,000 years. His death took place also Vijay & ; of the same race and coinplexion as
on Samet Sikhar 90,000 krors of sugaras after the first; he was also a native of Ayodhyâ, and the fifth Jina. has an elephant (gaja) for his cognizance, and 1 7. SUPARÁVA was the son of Pratishtha Ajitabalâ as his Så sana devi. His stature by Prithvi, born at Benares, of the same was 450 poles, and he lived 7,200,000 great line as the preceding and of golden colour; bis years. His nirvana took place on on Samet cognizance is the figure called śikhar or Mount Pârsvanatha in West- Swastika in Sanskrit, and ern Bengal, in the fourth age, when fifty lakhs of Sátya in Gujarati. His Devi lorôrs of oceans of years I had elapsed out of was Śântâ, and he lived the tenth kror of krörs.
2,000,000 years, his nirvana on 3. SAMBHAVA Was son of Jitari by Se. Samet Sikhar being dated na: of the same race and complexion as Rişha- 9,000 krors of sugaras after the preceding. bha; his cognizance a horse (asva); his Sasa- 8. CHANDRAPRABHA was son of Mahasena na-Duritari; his height 400 poles: he lived by Lakshman & , and was born at Chandri. 6,000,000 years ; he was born at sê wanta, pur; of the race of Ikshwaku, but of fair or white and attained moksha on Pârávanátha hill, thirty complexion : his sign is the moon (bas), and lakhs of krors of ságaras after Ajita.
his devi, Bhrikuti: his height was 150 poles; 4. ABHINANDANA, the son of Sambara by and he lived 1,000,000 years : and his entrance • Prinsep, Usef. Tab., p. 382 n., p. 233 ; also Wilson, Conf. Stevenson, Kalpa Satra, p. i.; Moor, Hindu PanVishnu Purana, pp. 162, 163, and note on p. 164.
theon, pp. 337. 338; Hodgson's Illustrations, p. 48, No. 82. + Weber, über das Catrunjaya Mahatmyam, pp. 36, 27,
The sectaries of the mystic cross or Swastika, or 'doe
tors of reason,' were the followers of the Pon religion, which 1 "In the second chapter, [of Hemachandra's Vocabu- prevailed in Tibet till the general introduction of Badlaryl which relates to the heavens and the gods, &c., the dhism in the ninth century. Their doctrine, named Bon sathor, speaking of time, observes that it is distinguished ghú tsiös, has still professors in Kham yul or Lower Tibet. into Avasarpint and Utsarpinl, adding that the whole Their founder was Chen ræbs. Some believe the doctrine to period is completed by twenty kotis of kotis of sdgaras, have been introduced from China, and consider it identical or 2,000,000,000,000,000 oceans of years. I do not find with the discipline of Lao-tse. Ita followers are called that he anywhere explains the space of time denominated Taosse in Chinese, and in the time of F Hinn appear to sagara or ocean. But I understand it to be an extravagant have existed also in India. - The Tao s named Ai is in estimate of time, which would elapse before a vast cavity
Banskrit Tapasvi, and is stated to have visited the infant filled with chopped hairs could be emptied, at the rate of one Baddhs and drawn his horoscope. Conf. Remusat Fod piece of hair in a century: the time requisite to empty such Kuod K, pp. 208, 230, 231; Laidlay, Pilgrimage of Fa
cavity, measured by yojana every way, iss palya, and Hian, pp. 300, 218, Asiat. Res. vol. i. p. 883; Csoma de that repeated ten kotis of kotis (or 1,000,000,000,000,000] Korod, Dictionary of the Tibetan Language, pp. 36, 94: of times is sagara."-Colebrooke, Essays (1837), Vol. Sykes, Jour. Roy. Asiat. Soc. pp. 310, 884, or Notes on the II. p. 216; Asiat. Researches, Vol. LX. pp. 818, 814
State of Ancient India, pp. 66 and 88.