Sramana 1996 01

SR No.: 525025
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ashok Kumar Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
Publication Year: 1996
Total Pages: 122
Language: Hindi
Classification: Magazine, India_Sramana, & India
File Size: 6 MB

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Yāpaniya Sect : An Introduction
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ing to Kalpa-sūtra Sthavirāvalī, other anterior Śvetāmbara acāryas also bore this title. In all probability the Boţika or Yāpanīya schism descending through this Northern Indian tradition, would have adopted this title Kșamāśramana. Late Prof. U. P. Shah also held these Vidiśā inscriptions to be Yāpanīya. He wrote, “Aryacandra, infact, was non-clothed (Acelaka ) and perhaps was related to the Yāpanīya sect. Prof. Shah identified Sarpasena of this inscription with Nāgasena. But Aryanāga, figured in Kalpa-sūtra Sthavirāvali in the lineage of Aryakrsna and Sivabhūti as posterior to Aryabhadra, Aryanakṣatra and Aryaraksa, can in no way be indentified with Sarpasena of Vidiśā inscriptions because lineage of this ( Sarpasena ) teacher has no direct linkage with that figured in Kalpa-sūtra. Nevertheless we can inter from the foregoing discussion that Aryakula, Bhadrānvaya and Sarpasena were related with Yāpanīya tradition.
Pahārapura ( Bengal ) inscription refers to Pañcastūpānvaya of Kāśi. Epigraphic evidences as well as architects notice that dome ( Stüpa ) worship was prevalent in Jaina-tradition at Mathurā. It is a fact that division between white cloth ( Sacela ) and non-clothed (Acela) monks in Jaina tradition, materialised in Northern India, near Mathurā. Therefore, probably, after division at Mathurā, non-clothed (Acela ) branch which arrived Vidiśā and Sāñci via Gwalior and Deogarh, became known as Āryakula and Bhadrānvaya and similarly, the branch which reached from Mathurā, to Bengal via Kāśī introduced itself as Pañcastūpānvayā. Perhaps, in the beginning Yäpanīya tradition named itself as Aryakula, Bhadrānvaya and Pañcastūpānvaya in North India, addressed as Boţikas by Svetāmbara's denigrately, and they assumed this nomenclature Yāpanīya in Northern India.
References 1. (a) Indian Antiquary, Swati Publications, Delhi, 1984, Vol. VII,
p. 34.
(b) H. Luders, Epigraphica Indica, Archaeological Survey of India, New Delhi, 1979, Vol. IV, pp. 338-339, p. 349. (c) Nathuram Premi, Jaina Hitaisi, XII, pp. 250-275. (d) A. N. Upadhye, Journal of the University of Bombay, 1956, VI, p. 224 ff. (e) Nathuram Premi, Jaina Sāhitya Aur Itihāsa, Bombay, Ed. IInd, 1956, p. 56f, 1551, 521f.