Arya Bhadrabahu

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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M. A. Dhaky
As inferred from a few Mathura inscriptions.
61. The precise date will depend on the date of beginning of the Kuṣāna Era. 62. That surmise seems reasonable in the present state of available evidence. 63. See the Vyavahāra-sūtra, eighth uddeśa.
64. The study of the oldest portions of the Acaränga Book I leads one to such a conclusion.
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The tradition is recorded in the pre-medieval Svetämbara literature. 66. See my article "On the Implication of the Nāgnya Parīṣaha in the Tattvärthadhigama sutra," Jainism and Prakrit in Anciut and Medieval India, Ed. N. N. Bhattacharya, Delhi 1994, pp. 413-419.
67. See the Kalpa, third Uddeśa.
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See the Uttaradhyayana sutra, modelled upon the severe ascetical style of Arhat Vardhamana himself as narrated in the Uvadhana sütta of Acaränga I.
69. Kalpa, second Uddeśa.
70. Ibid.
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A few sutras taken from such works later were incorporated in the Sthänänga.
72. Such as possibly the lost Kalpakalpa.
73. These fall within the pre-Mauryan to the Kusana times.
74. See the details of content and style of each chapter and the strata within them. 75. This seems plausible in view of the presence of uncomformities and heterogeneity noticeable in the character of the content.
76. Quotations from the version of the Kalpa possessed by the Yapaniya sect figuring in Aparajita sūri's commentary (c. late 8th cent. A. D.) on the Aradhana of Sivārya would lead to such an inference. The Botika-Kṣapanaka sect was founded by the schismic Arya Sivabhuti who separated from the main stream Nirgrantha Church somedate in the second century A. D. The Yapaniya sect apparently was the off-shoot of the Botika settled in northern Karnataka.
77. The discussion needs a very detailed analysis of the texts in question, which, of course, cannot be attempted in this paper.
78. Same remarks hold here, too, as they do in the context of the annotation 77. This is the view largely held by the pundits of the Digambara sect and by those
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who follow them.
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