Jaina Gazette 1928

SR No.: 034890
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ajitprasad, C S Mallinath
Publisher: Jaina Gazettee Office
Publication Year: 1928
Total Pages: 502
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 33 MB

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VARDHAMANA PURANA
17 tapas under Pihitasravaswami, and in due course passed away and reached the eighth Kalpa.
Triprishta went to the seventh naraka, and after undergoing the term of 33 sagaras came back to this world as a lion in Simhagiri forest. Here he was the terror of the forest. One day the lion tad the good fortune to see the charanas Arinjaya and Amitaguna. The charanas took pity on the soul of the lion and narrated to him the story of his former births thus :
“Long long ago in the forest of Madhukara there lived a hunter Pururava by name. He sighted at a distance Dharmasagara Sara muni and his followers travelling from Pundarikinipura. Taking the sage for a peculiar animal the hunter aimed an arrow at him, but his wife Kali prevented him. When the sage came near, the hunter threw down his bow and arrow. fell at his feet and begged for mercy. The sage blessed him, taught him the vow of abstinence from flesh eating, and moved on towards another town. As a result of his abstinence, the hunter died and became a deva in the Soudharma Kalpa.
“The term of one sagara year being over in the first Kalpa, you came back to this earth as Marichi son of Bharata the first Chakravarti by his wife Anantasene, and grandson of Purudeva the first Tirthamkara. Now Marichi started a religious school of his own different from that established by his grandfather. In the Samavasarana of Adiswami, the Ganadhara foretold Bharata that his son Marichi would, after a long course across the ocean of Samsara, become the last Tirthamkara. Marichi was delighted at this news. But elated with his own intelligence he soon forgot the lessons of wisdom and truth preached by the Jina and the Ganadharas, und became the originator of a Mithye school of religion. He invented the tarka sutras called Sankhya, taught Kapila and other disciples and assumed the robes of a monk. On his death he reached the Brahma Kalpa where he spent ten sagara years.
“He was next born on earth in Ayodhya as Jatila, son of Kapila the Brahman and his wife Kapile. He took to tapas even
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