Arya Bhadrabahu

Author(s): M A Dhaky
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93. For particulars on the source, see here annotations 26 and 27. 94. Vadda-Ārādhane, p. 55. 95. It also comes into conflict with the traditions preserved in the sixth century and
subsequent works of the Śvetāmbara Church. 96. Brhadkathākośa, pp. 316-318. 97. According to the Sthavirāvali of the Paryusanä-kalpa, he was the disciple of Arya
Sambutavijaya. From his medieval biographical sources, he is known to be the son of Sagadāla (Sakatāra), minister of Nanda, and had seven sisters. Apparently, he must be the youngest child of Sakatāra and must be in his prime of life when sent to Bhadrabāhu by the Sangha. His future disciple, Arya Suhasti, was to be the preceptor of Maurya Samprati, grandson of Asoka, arguably in the pontiff's
advanced age. 98. This account is given, among the older sources, in the Tirthāvakālika and
the Kahāvali. 99. See the Praśamaratiprakarana, Ed. Pt. Raj Kumar, Srimad-Rājacandra-Jaina
Šāstramālā, Agas V. S. 2044/A. D. 1988, pp. 64, 65. 100. He is a medieval author, a namesake of the famous Haribhadra sūri of the eighth
century. 101. Prasamarati., p. 65. I suspect that the "Bhadrabāhu-gandikā' (probably a chapter
of the lost Gandikānuyoga of Arya Syāma, c. 1st cent. B. C. - A. D.) may have contained this myth and this may have been the source of the tradition before
Umāsvāti. 102. ŚrimadĀvasyakasūtram (Uttarabhāgah), Ratlam 1929, p. 187. 103. According to the cūrni, the episode of the visit of the sisters of Sthūlabhadra took
place at the devakulikā when Bhadrabahu and he were camping at, or close by,
Pātaliputra. 104. For particulars, see annotation 21.. 105. For details, see the Sthavirāvali. 106. This is the view of the Indian historians, a few of whom, as I recall, also suggested
B. C. 325 for that event. The Greek sources state it to be B. C. 312. 107. Pariśīstaparva, translation, p. 176. 108. The Parisistaparva of Hemacanda (betweenc. A.D. 1160-1170) so states. 109. Further confusion is added by the interpreters of the Śravanabelgola inscription
of c. A. D. 600.