Page Text
________________
Mahavira Era
43
the Saka king was born from 1780, we get 1175. in which his work was
Now, deducting 605 expressly that the year Paridhavi samvatsara.
By the Tables in Brown's Carnatic Chronology, the Paridhavi samvatsara fell in Saka 1174. And Mr. Fleet, in his Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts, p. 69, has quoted an inscription in which the Paridhavi san.vatsara is allotted to Saka 1175, for 1174, according to Brown. Hence it is evident that 1780 years since Vira's nirvana had passed away in Saka 1175, the Paridhavi samvatsara. Consequently, the "ornament of the Nathakula" attained mokṣha 605 years before the Şaka era. The Svetämbaras place this event 470 year before the era of Vikrama. And the difference between the two eras is 135 years. And
605 years after Vira. And the auther says worshipped was the
470-135605 (before the Saka era)
605 78 527 B. C.
470 57-527 B. C.
I have omitted the fractions, as they do not affect my general conclusions. I have thus proved that the Digambaras of the Karnataka are perfectly at one with the Svetambaras on this important point.
I must say just a word in regard to the Śravakachāra. It is called Magkanandi-Śravak chāra, because Maghanandi wrote the first chapter. The remaining chapters, however, were composed by different authors whose names are mentioned. At the beginning of the fifth chapter, Maghanandi himself is thus praised :
नमो नम्रजनानंदस्य दिने माघणं दिने । जगत्प्रसिद्ध सिद्धांतवेदिने चित्प्रमोदिने ||
But the question of the authorship of the Śravakachara has no bearing whatever on the date of Mahāvīra himself.
Transcription
Vardhamana--tirthakara-kaladolu
Mattam I
GautamaSudharma- Jambunathar-emb-ivar anubaddha-kevaligala kalam | aruvatt-eradu varsham | 62 | Namdi-Nandimitra-Aparajita-Govardhana. Bhadrabahugal-emb=ayvaru sruta-kevaligala kalam nura varsham | 100 | Mattam Visakhanum Proshthilanum Kashatriyanum Jayanum Naganum Siddharthanum | Dhritishenanum Vijayanum Buddhilanum Gamgadevanum 1 Sudharmanm=emba dasa-purva-dhararaikadasara kalam nuremdhatta-mura varsham-akkum | Mattam Nakshatranum 1 Jayapalanum Pamduvum | Drumasenanum
Kusum-bacharyanum
| SR No. | 524574 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 1993 02 |
| 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 |