Aspect of Jainology Part 3 Pandita Dalsukh Malvaniya

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Sagarmal Jain
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith

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Tirthamkaras of the Future
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Also Trişasti and Gunavijaya (cf. fn. 54); Nemicaritra and Lokaprakāśa, 555a, 10 : ....Jitas atroh suto 'thas tvam dvadašo nāmato 'mamah; Vasudevahindi quoted ibid. : duvālasamo Amama-nāma-Titthayaro bhavissai. I cannot trace this passage in the text itself. Kanha (No. 21 in Samav) must be a different person : cf. PrPN s. v. 7 Kanha; contra Ch. Krause, Ancient Jaina Hymns, intr. p. 16, where he is identified with the previous one. Cf. Dānāšļakakatha, Paris, 1982, n. 3, p. 197-198; Indologica Taurinensia, vol. 11. 11th cent. A. D. Ed. Prakrit Text Series 15. I purposely do not expati. ate here on the contents of the stories. Cf. Jaina Stories as retold in Hindi (....) by Muni Shri Mahendrakumarji Pratham. English trsl. by K. C. Lalwani, vol. I, Calcutta, 1976, p. 47 and Intr. p. xviii. Conversely, narrative literature gives information about heroes to whom rebirth as T., Cakravartin etc. is predicted, though they do not occur in the lists : e. g. Rāma's prophecy about the future destinies of Sitendra, Rāvana and Lakşmaņa (Trișaști, trsl. vol. IV, p. 351) : the first will be a Cakravartin, the two others T., after three births; cp, Svayambhūs; deva, Paumacariu (ed. H. C. Bhayani, Bombay, 1960, vol. III): XC, 9, 4 9, 10; 10, 6. See 1.1.1. 552b, 25, a quotation attributed to the Nandivștti mentions an interval of 84007 years and 5 months between Vira and Mahapauma : culasi vasa-sahassā, vāsa satt' eva pamca māsā ya Vira-Mahāpaumāņam antaram eyam viyaņāhi. iti Nandi-vrttau. I am not able to trace this verse in the text itself, but it was possibly well-known as it occurs almost identically in the Titthogāli ga. 1039. The rebirth in the third hell (see 1.2.1) comes first, but is not staged in a dialogue : Thān (S I, 299, 13–16); Titthogāli, gā. 1031-32. Sammui as one of the 10 kulagaras, Thān (S I, 313,6), but not among the seven of Samav (S I, 381, 20-21). It is strange that Sreņika-Mahāpadma's genealogy, also given Trișaști (trsl. vol. vi, p. 347) exactly reproduces what is prophesied by Mahāvira for Gośāla's future births : Trişasti vol. vi, p. 223, following Viyāhapannatti xv (S I, 733,28ff.; Deleu, p. 220); also PrPN p. 568, s. 0.9 Mahāpauma. Cp. Lokaprakasa 552a, 11-12 : F. Ts' measurements, caste, life-span, colour, etc. correspond to those of the avasarpiņi-Ts. taken in the reverse order :
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