Tirthankaras of the Future

SR No.: 250347
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nalini Balbir
Publisher: Z_Aspect_of_Jainology_Part_3_Pundit_Dalsukh_Malvaniya_012017.pdf
Publication Year: 1991
Total Pages: 34
Language: English
Classification: Article & Tirthankar
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Tirthankaras of the Future
Also Trisasti and Gunavijaya (cf. fn. 54); Nemicaritra and Lokaprakasa, 555a, 10:Jitafatroḥ suto 'rhas tvam doadafo namato 'mamah; Vasudevahindi quoted ibid. duvalasamo Amama-nama-Titthayaro bhavissai, I cannot trace this passage in the text itself.
Kanha (No. 21 in Samav) must be a different person: cf. PrPN s. v. 7 Kanha; contra Ch. Krause. Ancient Jaina Hymns, intr. p. 16, where he is identified with the previous one.
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Cf. Danastakakatha, Paris, 1982, n. 3, p. 197-198; Indologica Taurinensia, vol. 11.
11th cent. A. D. Ed. Prakrit Text Series 15. I purposely do not expatiate here on the contents of the stories.
Cf. Jaina Stories as retold in Hindi (...) by Muni Shri Mahendrakumarji Pratham. English trsl. by K. C. Lalwani, vol. I, Calcutta, 1976, p. 47 and Intr. p. xviii.
Conversely, narrative literature gives information about heroes to whom rebirth as T., Cakravartin etc. is predicted, though they do not occur in the lists e. g. Rama's prophecy about the future destinies of Sitendra, Ravana and Laksmana (Trisaşti, trsl. vol. IV, p. 351): the first will be a Cakravartin, the two others T., after three births; cp. Svayambhu-; deva, Paumacariu (ed. H. C. Bhayani, Bombay, 1960, vol. III): XC, 9, 4 9, 10; 10, 6.
See 1.1.1.
552b, 25, a quotation attributed to the Nandivṛtti mentions an interval of 84007 years and 5 months between Vira and Mahapauma:
culasi vasa-sahassa, väsa satt' eva pamea masa ya Vira-Mahapaumāņam antaram eyam viyagahi, iti Nandi-vrttau.
I am not able to trace this verse in the text itself, but it was possibly well-known as it occurs almost identically in the Titthogali ga. 1039.
The rebirth in the third hell (see 1.2.1) comes first, but is not staged in a dialogue Than (S I, 299, 13-16); Titthogall, ga. 1031-32.
Sammui as one of the 10 kulagaras, Than (S I. 313,6), but not among the seven of Samav (S I, 381, 20-21). It is strange that Srenika-Mahapadma's genealogy, also given Trisasti (trsl. vol. vi, p. 347) exactly reproduces what is prophesied by Mahavira for Gośala's future births: Trişaşți vol. vi, p. 223, following Viyahapannatti xv (S I, 733,28ff.; Deleu, p. 220); also PrPN p. 568, s. v. 9 Mahāpauma.
70. Cp. Lokaprakasa 552a, 11-12 F. Ts' measurements, caste, life-span, colour, etc. correspond to those of the avasarpiņi-Ts. taken in the reverse order:
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