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Siddhasena Divākara and Vikramāditya
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Mahāvīra predicts to Indra that 466 years and 45 days after his Nirvāņa King Vikrama would free the earth from debt and subsequently replace the Vīra-samvat by his own Samvatsara.
Based mostly on the above-mentioned and similar sources, which have not yet been made available in print”, are a number of brief references to Vikrama and Siddhasena, his Guru, sometimes only alluding to one or another of the above-related episodes, in later Jaina literature, such as Acalakīrti's Vişāpahārastotrabhāṣā!", Banārasīdāsa's Kalyāṇamandirastotrabhāsā”, Bộndāvana's Mangalāstaka?? and Gurvāvalīstotra”).
Generally not much older than all the above works, none of which is, so far as can be ascertained, composed previous to A.D. 12002, are the references contained in the Pattāvalis and kindred works mentioned above, such as Dharmaghosasūri's DusamākālaSamaṇasangha-Thayam, or rather its Avacūri,35 Ravivardhanagani's Pattāvalīsāroddhāra, an anonymous Guru-Pattāvalp, Kharataragaccha-Sûri-Paramparā-Prasastis, Kharatara-gacchaPattāvali Nos. 1 and 239, the anonymous RatnasañcayaPrakaranam", and Pradyumnasūri's Vicārasāra-Prakarana“.
Still, works of this type are assumed to contain, by way of quotations, passages of the last-named two works betray, by their very wordings, origin from a common old source, and also the extent to which the original has been contorted. Both do not mention any relationship between Vikrama and Siddhasena, it is true, but they clearly state them to have belonged to approximately the same age.
(1) Ratnasañcaya-Prakarana : चउसयसत्तरि वरिसे वीराओ विक्कमो जाओ ॥ ५६ ।। पंचवे य वरिससए सिद्धसेणो दिवायरो जाओ ।
सत्तसय वीस अहिए कालिगगुरु सक्कसंथुणिओ ॥ ५७ ।।
"470 years after Vīra, Vikrama flourished. 500 years after Vira, Siddhasena Divākara flourished. 720 years after Vira, Guru
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