Tulsi Prajna 1993 02

SR No.: 524574
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Parmeshwar Solanki
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati
Publication Year: 1993
Total Pages: 166
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India
File Size: 7 MB

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(605.5394.7) the Kalki (Sandacott us) period starts 6461 years 4 months after Lord Rṣabha's death, the first Omniscient.
The Greek historians have recorded 6462 years from King Dionysus (King Dushyanta) to the Sandracottus (Kalki ?) including the two periods of 300 + 120 years of dynasty break. They have also recorded the period of 6451 years 3 months between Father Baccus (Shukracharya ?) and Alexander the Great, which exactly becomes 6461 years 4 months on the coronation of Sandracottus (Kalki) during the rign of Seleucus, i.e,, after 10 years 1 months, after the death of Alexander the Great.
Thus abacus calculates the figure of 6803 years 4 months and 15 days if we enumerate the gap of 5800 years between the death of Lord Rṣabha and Lord Mahavira-+3 years 8 months and 15 days left in the fourth spoke+one thousand years till the Kalki's birth. But the figure of 6803 years, four months and 15 days exceeds by 342 years four months and 15 days to above calculation figure of Omniscience period-+-one thousand years of Kalki's birth. Hence we have to accept the appearance of Lord Rṣabha four hundred years earlier. He might have achieved Omniscience 342 years 4 months and 15 days before his death.
There have been recorded in Kalpa Sutra (147 & 160) the time of nirvāṇa of Lord Parshva and Lord Mahāvīra as under :
'समणसं भगवओ महावीरस्स जाव सव्व दुक्ख प्पहीणस्स नववास सयाई विइक्कंताई, दसमस्य वास सयस्स अयं असीइय संवच्छरे काले गच्छति, वायणंतरे पुण अयं ते उए संवच्छरे काले गच्छति इति दीसइ ।। १४७ '
'पासस्स णं अरहओ जाव सव्व दुक्ख प्पहीणस्स दुवालस वास सयाई विइक्कताई, तेर समस्य वास सयस्स अयं तीसदमे संवच्छरे काले गच्छइ ॥ १६० '
"That a period of nine hundred years elapsed and this is eightieth year, or according to another calculations, it is the 993rd year since the death of Lord Mahāvīra.
Similarly, twelve hundred years expired and thirtieth year is passing since the death of Lord Parshva,
This calculation refers to the composition period of the Kalpa Sutra i.e., 980 years after the death of Lord Mahāvīra (Veer Nirvāņam. Tataḥ 980 Pustake nyastaḥ). Accordingly it was 1230th year after the death of Lord Parshva and Mahāvīra's death took place (BVE 723-+1230-1953-1703 BVE) exactly 250 years later.
Unfortunately, early Jaina texts do not take much interest in describing the life of Mahāvīra. The Bhagavati Sūtra is the only early work giving some details. However, it also does not record his death.