Ancient Jaina Hymns

Author(s): Charlotte Krause
Publisher: SCIndia Oriental Institute Ujain

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REMARKS ON THE TEXTS of thought, for "jñāna”), and "Sri()" (general, for “Lakşmi'), without however giving any hint as to their intended arrangement.
In the same way, st.10 glorifies the efficacy of a mantra of Padmavati, Pārsvanātha's much worshipped "Sāsana-devī”, whom Jaina Mantra-sāstra believes to embody Sarasvati, Durgā, Tārā, Sakti, Aditi, Laksmī, Kāli, Tripurasundari, Bhairavi, Ambikā, Kundalini, etc. The "mūla-mantra” is given in the following form:
"Padmavatyai namo'stu sphuta hana daha raksa raksa”.
It is accompanied by the following "bijas”: "om" ("pranava"), "hrin" ("Māyā"), "klīm" ("Ananga"), "Srīn ("Lakşmi"), "blīm" ("ākarşana'), "hsom" ("Sakti”), which are all well-known from general Tantric lore, except for "blīm”, which seems to be particularly Jaina. The poet winds the list up with "svadha”, which, according to Jaina Tantrasāstra, indicates "sánti”,4 just as "namo" is said to stand for "moksa"If the third line of the pertinent stanza, an isolated Citralekha-pada between two Sragdharā-padas, and, for the matter of that, the only Citralekhā-pada of the whole poem is to be corrected
(1) Vide the list of "mantra-bijas” on p. 139 ff. of “Gri Jaina-KalpaMantra-Nahodadhi", I, by Muni Viravijaya, Multan, V. S. 1999. (2) The following arrangement is generally found:
"Om hrinú frimu (arbam) namiūna Pisa visahan rasaha Jiņ3 phulinga hrim (irim) (sviba)". Vide J. St. Sand. II, p. 15, 27, 34, II. B. Jhaveri, loc. cit., Texts p. 43, 44, and "Panca. pratikramapa-sutra", Jaina Atminanda Sabha, Bhavnagar,
V. S. 1952 p. 456. (3) Though "blin" is occasionally found in Jaina texts, still I have seen this explanation only in Upidhyaya Labdhimuni's list referred to above.
(*) M. B. Jhaveri, loc. cit., Texts, p. 20, 1. 11.
(5) Tide "T1-Sün-mantra-t tabatkalpavivaran:", Almccatad, 133 S. 2455, p. 2 a.
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