Correlation of Jaina Inscriptions with Sthaviravalis

SR No.: 269042
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Author: U P Shah
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Publication Year: 2004
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Jambu-jyoti
or Maghahasti of inscriptions dated in the years 52 and 54 belonged to Vajrī sākhā, it would show that Manguhasti or Māghahasti flourished later than Arya Vajra23
Now, if this Māghahasti is the same as Ārya Mangu, then Arya Mangu is later than Arya Vajra. But the Tapāgaccha-pattavali, says saptasastyadhikacatuhsatavarse 467 Arya Manguh. But the same Tapāgaccha Pattāvali (composed in V. S. 1696 = A. D. 1639-40) says the following about Vayarasāmi (Vajrasvämi) :
तेरसमो वयरसामि गुरू । व्याख्या - तेरसमो त्ति श्रीसीहगिरिपट्टे त्रयोदशः श्रीवज्रस्वामी र्या बाल्यादपि जातिस्मृतिभाक्, नभोगमनविद्यया संघरक्षाकृत, दक्षिणस्यां बौद्धराज्ये जिनेन्द्रपूजानिमित्तं पुष्पाद्यानयनेन प्रवचनप्रभावनाकृत्, देवाभिवंदितो दशपूर्वविदामपश्चिमो वज्रशाखोत्पत्तिमूलम् । तथा स भगवान् षण्णवत्यधिकचतुःशत ४९६ वर्षान्ते जातः सन् अष्टौ ८ वर्षाणि गृहे, चतुश्चत्वारिंशत् ४४ वर्षाणि व्रते षट्त्रिंशत् ३६ वर्षाणि युगप्र०, सर्वायुरष्टाशीति वर्षाणि परिपाल्य श्री वीरात् चतुरशीत्यधिकपंचशत ५८४ वर्षान्ते स्वर्गभाक् । श्री वज्रस्वामिनो दशपूर्व-चतुर्थसंहनसंस्थानानां व्युच्छेदः ।
चतुष्कुलसमुत्पत्तिपितामहमहं विभुम् । दशपूर्वविधि (दं) वन्दे वज्रस्वामिमुनीश्वरम् ।।
-पट्टावली-समुच्चय, part 1, p. 47 But we must remember that, just as Kautika or Kotika gana had a Veri or Vairī or Vajri śākhā, Vārana gana had a Hattikīya kula (corrected by Lüders as Arya Halakīya kula) with Vajranāgarī sākhā, mentioned in a Jaina Inscription from Mathura dated Samvat 4, vide Luders' Inscr. no. 16. Thus Veri or Vairi and Vajranāgarī are two different sakhas. (See also inscription on 1.234, Lucknow Museum.)
__Luders' Ins. no. 18, dated in the Samvat 5 of Devaputra Kaniska refers to Kautika gana, Brahmadāsika kula, and Uchenagari Sakha. These are also referred to in Lüders' Inscriptions nos. 19 and 20 of Samvat 5. The Uccaināgarī sākhã emanated from Arya Sāntiseniä according to the vistrta vacană of the Paryusanākalpa Sthaviravali. This Śăntinika was contemporary, senior confrère of Sīhagiri (Simhagiri) the teacher of Arya Vajra. It is interesting to note that, in the inscription discussed by Bajpai and Dhaky, earlier referred, a mendicant of the Santinika kula became a member of Vajri sakha and not of the Uccenāgarī sākhä said to have been started under Arya śāntinika.