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Vol. XXXV, 2012
The Earliest Portions of Daśavaikālika-sūtra
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Cf. the Brhat-kalpa-niryukti (c. A.D. 475-525) and the Brhat-kalpa-bhāsya (c. mid 6th cent. A.D.). Cf. Walther Schubring, The Doctrine of the Jainas, reprint, Delhi 1978, p. 44, infra 3. The computation is based on B.C. 477 as the date of nirvana of Arhat Vardhamāna as determined by H. Jakobi.
The 'Sthavirāvali of the Paryusanā-kalpa (earliest part c. A.D. 100), as well as the 'Sthavirāvali of the Nandisutra (c. mid 5th cent. A.D.), the two being the earliest sources, lay down the following order of succession of the patriarchs of the Northern Church:
Arhat Vardhamāna (Jina Mahāvīra) (Period of preaching B.C. 507-477)
Ganadhara Sudharamā
Ganadhara Gautama
(1) Arya Jambū
(2) Ārya Prabhava
(3) Ārya Sayyambhava (or śvāyambhūva) (4) Ārya Yaśobhadra
Ārya Bhadrabāhu (c. B.C. 325-297) (contemporary of Candragupta Maurya)
(5) Ārya Sambhūta
Ārya Godāsa (and 3 others)
(6) Ārya Sthūlabhadra
Ārya Mahāgiri
(7) Ārya Suhasti (contemporary of Maurya Samprati: c. B.C. 235-215)
The date of Arya Sayyambhava depends on the date of the nirvana of Jina Mahāvīra at one end, and of Arya Bhadrabāhu as well as of Arya Suhasti at the other. The recent recomputation (or rethinking) tends to bring down
