Arya Bhadrabahu

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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7. Medieval sources specify this date : The computed date for Arya Skandila /
Sandila also accords with this date : the date thus seems probable. I reserve
detailed discussion on this date for a future paper. 8. For this Phase 5, in fact for the whole of the Sthaviravali, I have consulted
the Pattāvali-samuccaya, Ed. Muni Darśanavijaya, Śrī Caritra-Smāraka
granthmālā, Viramagām 1933, pp.1-11. 9. These two different dates are recorded, as specified in annotation 4, at the end of
the "Jinacaritra” section in some later manuscripts of the Paryusanakalpa. Muni Punyavijaya's edition does not give the second or alternative date, namely V.N.993/ A.D. 516: (Cf. his Kalpasūtra, Ahmedabad 1952, pp. 59-60, sutra 200). Valabhi Synod II was convoked for collating and reconciling the differences and divergencies in the versions fixed at the Mathura Synod (c. A.D. 363) chaired by Arya Skandila (or Sandila) and the contemporaneous Valabhi Synod I presided over by Arya Nāgārjuna of the Nägendra-śākhā. This fact is reported in the Kahävali of Bhadreśvara sūri (c. late 10th century A.D.: unpublished) and, if I correctly remember, in one of the commentaries by Malayagiri (c. 3rd quarter
of the 12th cent. A.D.). 10. As I recall, the noted epigrapher and historian H. P. Shastri favours Gupta as
the more probable sovereign power under which the Maitrakas ruled before
they became independent rulers. 11. Cf. the Thanamgasuttam and Samavāyamgasuttam, Ed. Muni Jarnbūvijaya, Jaina
Agama-Series No.3, Bombay 1985, p. 450. 12. Árya Syāma is credited in the two seventh century cūrņi commentaries on
the Brhatkalpasútra to have composed the Prathamānuyoga (embodying lives of the 24 tīrthankaras), the Gandikānuyoga (treating the lives of the Cakravartis, Vasudevas, and some other early great men), the Lokānuyoga (dealing, as its title suggests, with cosmology/cosmography), and some Saṁgrahanīs or collections of topical verses, some of which may have been inserted in the corpus of the agamas of the Saka and Kusāna periods and some of them apparently were utilized in the formulation of the texts of some of the Prakirnaka āgamic works. All of the works of Arya Syāma, however, are lost, but were available for consultation to the compiler of the Samavāyānga-sútra (c. A. D. 353/363). The cūrnis interpret the heading 'Lokānuyoga' in a way different from mine. However, as the title suggests, it must pertain to cosmology/cosmography. (For details and discussion on Arya Śyama and his contributions, see Punyavijayajī article, "Prathamānuyogaśāstra ane Tenā Pranetā Sthavira Arya Kālaka," (Gujarātī),