Sambodhi 1976 Vol 05

SR No.: 520755
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 416
Language: English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati
Classification: Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India
File Size: 12 MB

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Tattvarthasülya
Verification of Prasasti
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Mathura inscriptions during the reign of King Kanishka and Huvishka, e., 2nd century A. D.' It appears that Kolika gana was one of the ost influential parties in those days, of which pame is said by Bubler to yo survived in the 14th century A.D. A few other kulas and sakhas
this gana are listed in the inscriptions, and its Vidyadhart sakha appe& again in the Mathurā inscription of 432 A. D. Inscriptions were made
the Jaina lay men mostly in the memory of the donation of images, whiI as a rule record the names of their preceptors in the above gana, kula id sakha in due order Once it happens, however, that Brabmadasika ula is mentioned together with Uccairnagari sākba, and twice Uccairagari sakha alone. All these belong to the period of King Huvishka. This lay auggest that the larger divisions of gana and kula were already on the ay to be expressed by the smaller division of sakha, which exactly 80 Dund in the case of Uccairnagari sāk a recorded in our prasasti Uccairn gari is the name of the sākba, and Uccaroagara a member of the sakha, aug «Uccainagara Vācaka" signifies a reciter of Uccairnagari sukha. Furbermore Uccairdagara 18 identified with a place name which 18 also known 19 Varana, modern Bulandashahar (Baran or Bannu) 10 U. P."
It is interesting to pote in this connection that 1/4 of the names of these three units gana-kula-sakba listed in the Kalpasūtra are derived from the place names of Northern India ranging from Bengal through Rajasthan as follows: Antaranjika (Atranji-kbera, on the Kalınadı), Bhadarıyaka (Bhaddilapura, identified with Bhadia, Hazaribagh Dt.), Brahmadasika # (Bambhaluja, Bambhadvx, island, unlocatable), Dasikhabaliku (Bengal), Indrapuraka (Indore, Bulandashabar Dt), Kakandika (Kakandi, Kakan; Mongbyr Dt.) Kamiyaka (Kampillapura ?, city on the bank of the Ganges), Kaugambika (Kosam, Allahabad), Kolivarşıya (Dinajpur, Bengal), Madhyamika (Nagari, Rajasthan), Masapühika (Masapuri, capital of Purivatta, oot identifiable), Popdravarthaniya (Mabästhada, Bogra Dt., Bengal). Sravastika (Sravasti, UP), Tamraliptikā (Tamaluk, Midnapore Dt , Bengal), Vanya * (Vädiyagama, city Dear Vesalı), Varana * (Varang or Varuna, Bulandaghahar, U.P.). Vatsalıya* (Vaccha). Those with an asterisk appear in the Mathora Dscriptions, which are likewise spread through the same geograpbical area, thus explaining the distribution of the Jalna oider in the 2nd century A.D. in the North and the position of Mathurā city as the center of Jainism,
According to the Kal pasūtra, Uccairnagarı sāxbā was founded by Arya Sant-senika, disciple of Arya Datta. Kolika gana to which Uccarnagari sa khx belongs was instituted by Susthita and Supratībuddha. Umxsvati is not referred in the Kal pasūtra theravali, a brief table of which pertaining to the later discussion 18 given below (based on the Kal pasūtra in the S.B.E..v.22).