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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Mahāvira Era
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शुद्ध प्ररूपणा रही और पश्चात् १६९९ वर्ष पर्यन्त अशुद्ध बाहुल्य प्ररूपणा रही। अर्थात् दोनों को मिलाने से १९९० वर्ष हुआ। उस समय धूमकेतु ग्रह ३३३ वर्ष के लिए लगा। विक्रम संवत् १५३१ में "लंका" मुंहता प्रकट हुआ। २००० वर्ष पूर्ण हो जाने से भस्म ग्रह उतर गया। इसका मिलान इस प्रकार कीजिये कि ४७० वर्ष पर्यन्त नन्दीवर्द्धन शाका और १५३० वर्ष पर्यन्त विक्रम संवत् एवं दोनों को मिलाने से २००० वर्ष हो गये।"
It may be Halley's comet that orbitting round the sun in every 76.1 year's period. Accordingly its arrival does not occur in the year 526 B.C; but its 27th round must have been seen in the year 3:0 B.C., if the year of Mahavira's Nirvana was 1761 B.C.
Bhattot pal, the famous commentator on Brhat Samhitā, quotes occurences and durations of some comets. Accordingly the
asma-graha i.e. Paitāmah Chalketu and its follower Kasyap Svetketu orbit the sun in every 1500 years simultaneously, one after another and the Kaliketu (Lūńka) predates them by its
duration of 300 years and a months only. 20. In the 10th line of the khārvela's Hathigumphā Inscription it is said
"दसमे च वसे कलिंग राजवसाने ततिययुगे सगावसाने कलिंगयुवराजनं वासकारं कारापयति ।" This can be interpreted as—"In the 10th year, King Khārvela, made his son vasakara (Vasuka) successor-designate. At that time, Cheti dynastey had completed three yugas (i.e, the reign of Erasa Mahārāja, Kalingadhipati Mahāmeghavahana and Kudepsiri) and most probably the death of Mahārāja Kudepsiri might have occurred, so it was the end of an epoch (सगावसान), This event was marked by starting of an era which is referred to as having taken place 470 years after Mahāvīra's Nirvāṇa. Now, the date of Khārvela is inferred from the reference that in Kalinga three dynasties reigned after the advent of Kali Age, (c.f. Babu Bhavanichandra Bandyopādhāya's "Puruşottom Chandrikā---Shri Kshetra Dharmer Bikhan", published in 1843, which is in a palmleaf MS kept in Jagannāth Temple at Orissa).
The third dynasty-Cheti got the power in 1407 B.C. after 116 years of reign by Erasa Mahārāj, Kalingadhipati Mahāmeghavāhana and Mahārāj Kudepsiri the era was started in 1291 B.C.
Again according to Lama Tārānāth (History of Buddhism, Patna, 1971, p. 47) Puśyamitra Sunga died 500 years after
Buddhas' Nirvana. २१. (i) पणछस्सयवस्सं पणमासजुदं गमिय वीरणिब्बुइदो। सगराजो ततो कक्की चतुणवतियमाहिय सगमासं ॥
-त्रिलोकसार, गाथा-८५०