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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which so far from hitting him, came and stood near him: Purushottam a then picking up the chakra in his turn, flung it at Madhu Kaitabha who was slain by it; after which he became Adhipati of three Khandas, and ruling over the kingdom for some time, Purushottama on his dissolution, leaving his body, his soul went to hell, but Suprabha after the death of his brother being much grieved, went to Somaprabha Kevali, and received initiation from him, and acquiring the state of a Kevali, he obtained beatitude. Madhu Kaita bha also after his death went to hell.*
THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
15. DHARMA was son of Bhân u by Suvratâ, and was born at Ratnapuri: characterized by the vajra or thunderbolt: his devî was Kandarpâ; he was forty-five poles in stature, and lived 1,000,000 years: he was deified four sagaras after the fourteenth Jina.
16. SANTI was the son of Viśvasena by Achirâ, born at Hastinapur; he has the antelope (mriga) for his cognizance. His Sasana was Nirvani; he was forty poles in stature, lived 100,000 years, and died two ságaras later than the preceding.†
17. KUNTHU was the son of Sara by Sri, of the same race and complexion as the last, was also born at Hastinapur. His Śâsana was Bala; his cognizance is a goat (chhaga); his height was thirty-five poles, and his life 95,000 years. His nirvana is dated in the last palya of the fourth age. 18. ABA was the son of Sudarsana by Devi; his mark is figure Nandyavarta;
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of the same race and complexion, and born at
the same place as the preceding; his Sasana was Dharini: his stature was thirty poles, his life lasted 84,000 years, and his nirvána was 1,000 krors of years before the next Jina.
19. MALLI was son of Kumbha by Prabhavati; of the same race with the preceding, but of blue complexion; his mark
Wilson, Mackensie Coll., vol. I., pp. 148-152. The life of this Jina is the object of a separate work
[MAY, 1873.
being a water-jar (ghata); he was born at Mithila, and his Sâsana Devi was Dharaṇapriya; he was twenty-five poles high, lived 55,000 years, and was deified 6,584,000 years before the close of the fourth age.
20. MUNISUVRATA, SUVRATA, or MUNI, was son of Sumitra by Padmâ, of the Harivansa race, and of black complexion; he was born at Rajagriha; has a tortoise (kúrma) for his cogni. zance, and Naradattå for his devî; his height was twenty poles, and his age 30,000 years. He died 1,184,000 years before the end of the fourth age:
21. NIMI was son of Vijaya by Viprâ; born at Mithilâ, of the race of Ikshvâku; figured with a golden complexion; having for his mark a blue water-lily (nilôtpala), and for his Sâsana, Gândhâri Devi. His stature was fifteen poles; his life 10,000 years; and his apotheosis took place, like the preceding eight Jinas, on Samet Šikhar or Mount Pârévanâtha, 584,000 years before the expiration of the fourth age.
22. NEMI, or ARISHTANEMI, was the son of King Samudra vijaya by his queen Śivâ; of the Harivansa race, of black complexion, with the conch (sankha) for his symbol, and Ambika for his Sasana Devi. The Kalpa Sutra says he was born in Śråvan, the first month of the rainy season, under the constellation Chaitra, at Sôriyapuri, which Stevenson supposes to be Agra, but which is generally believed to have been a town in Kathiawâd. It is said that he excelled in all kinds of athletic exercises and was of invincible strength. His cousin Krishna was also of superhuman strength, and was able to blow a large conah from which it was believed no other person could produce a blast. One day Neminatha saw it lying on the ground, and asking why that toy was lying there, he took it up and blew such a blast upon it as qure alarmed Krishna who began to enquire who it was that could blow upon his sankha? On finding it was his cousin, he became jealous of him as a rival, and accordingly directed his hundred gopis to excite amorous thoughts in Neminatha and shame him into marriage, thinking intercourse with women the only way to put down his strength. The gopis began to tease him and tell him as he was grown up to manhood
entitled Santi Purana.-Colebrooke, Essays, ut sup. p. 211 n., Asiat. Res. IX. p. 308.