Jain Journal 1970 10

SR No.: 520020
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication
Publication Year: 1970
Total Pages: 50
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Jain Journal, & India
File Size: 3 MB

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the four-fold path of samyaktva, jñāna, tapah and samyama and later was initiated in the order.
3. Māyā (deceit)-Biography of Mayaditya :
There was a village Saligrama to the south-west of Varanasi. it lived a vaisya Gangaditya who was poor, ugly, socially abominable, morally heinous and full of treachery wherefore he was unanimously nicknamed as Mayaditya. He developed friendship with Sthanu of good nature. Both of them reached Pratisthana for business. They earned five thousand coins each and converted the cash into five jewels for each. They started home dressed as friars for safety of travelling. Mayaditya attempted more than once, to deceive his companion and deprive him of his share. He pushed him once into a well but a party of robbers saved him from that plight, gave him his share of five jewels and warned him to beware of his treacherous associate whom they had already thrown in a thicket taking all the ten jewels on his person. Sthanu's behaviour was so straight and sincere that Mayaditya felt penitent. He was advised by a village elder to take a dip in the Ganges. On his way to the pilgrimage he came to Dharmanandana who advised him to seek shelter in the words of Jina and when his karmas were sufficiently quieted gave him dikṣā.
4. Lobha (greed)-Biography of Lobhadeva:
In the village Uccasthala, situated to the south-west of Taksasila, there lived a sārthavāha's son Dhanadeva. As he was highly greedy, deceitful and avaricious of other's wealth, he was nicknamed Lobhadeva by which he became well-known. For earning more wealth, once he went to the South and camped with Bhadrasresthin at Soparaka. By selling horses in the local market, he earned enormous wealth there. He was given a reception in the Native Traders' Club where he heard of still greater profits in distant countries. By prevailing upon Bhadrasresthin to accompany him, he reached Ratnadvipa where they made huge gains. While returning in a ship, he trickily pushed Bhadrasresthin into the sea, so that he was no more to share his wealth. The latter was reborn as a demon and took revenge on Lobhadeva by tossing his ship up and down in a gale till it was smashed to pieces. Lobhadeva, however, floated unconscious to an island the residents of which took out periodically his flesh and blood for alchemical purpose. He was left just a skeleton and was picked up by a Bharunda bird. When he was dropped by it on a lonely spot, somehow he felt remorse for his ingratitude to Bhadrasresthin. He wanted to purify his sin. While he was on his way to
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