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Sindhu-desa Of Jaina Literature is Tirabhukti (North Bihar)
YOGENDRA MISHRA
IN 1936 the late Kamta Prasad Jain raised an important and pertinent
problem relating to early Jaina literature and Indian political geography. He pointed out that some Digambara Jaina books placed Vardhamāna Mahavira's birthplace Viśālā or Vaiśāli, whose chief was Cetaka, in Sindhu-deśa or Sindhu-vişaya, and furnished the following quotations in this connection:
1 Jaina-Siddhānta-Bhaskara, Vol. 3 (September, 1936), p. 50, foot-note.
To these we may add the following from the Maha-Purāņa of Puşpadanta, an Apabhramsa work completed in A.D. 965 (chapter 98, section 9, P. L. Vaidya's edition, Vol. III, Bombay, 1941, pp. 241-243) -
“félaug agar grafi
घरसिरिओहामियसुरवरघरि ॥२॥ चेडउ णाम गरेसरु णिवसइ । देवि अखुद्द सुहद्द महासह ॥ ३ ॥ पियकारिणि वरणाहकुलेसहु ।। सिद्धत्थहु कुंडउरणरेसहु ॥१०॥"
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