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royal paraphernalia above described. (See page 9-B Nirvāņakalikā). The author of Nirvāņakalikā is Pādaliptasūri above referred to who flourished about the first century of the Christian era. * Now about the time this practice of presentation of royal paraphernalia to an Achārya arose, he must have had also some place to keep them. It can be well imagined that they must have been kept somewhere near a place which he might have taken up as his residence for the greater part of the year; that such a place was usually connected with a Jain temple appears to be proved by the accounts we are able to gather of the Caityavāsis. We would therefore be justified in inferring that about the time of Sri Pādaliptasūri Caityavása must have been considerably old to allow an Achārya to accept, and maintain even royal Paraphernalia.
ARYA MAHĀGIRI AND ĀRYA SUHASTI On a careful study of the ancient Jain literature we find that the question of residence of the Jain Sadhus assumed prominence which it had not done before, first about the time of Arya Mahāgiri and Arya Suhasti the two joint pontiffs who succeeded Sthūlabhadra in or about 215 Vira era. The former is generally supposed to have died about 245 and the latter about 291 Vira era.
Arya Mahāgiri resolved to follow, as far as possible, Jinakalpa or the strict course of conduct which had been followed by most of
* Sri Kalyāņavijayaji in his introduction to the Gujarati translation of Sri Prabhåvakacaritra has tried to show the date of Pädalipta sūri, the author of Nirvanakalikā, to be from about the end of the 2nd century to the first half of the 3rd century of the Vikrama era, on the supposition that the word 'Murunda' which means 'master' could have been applied to the ruler at Patliputra only after it came under the sway of the Kuśāna rulers, and that it came under their sway between s. y. 177 and 219, and from the date of Arya Nagahasti given in 'Yugapradhāna-Pattāvali viz. s.y. 151 to 219. He has however not explained the mention of Tarangavaikkāra, (author of Tarangavati novel) i.e. Padalipta sūri, by Aryarakṣita sūri in his work Anuyogadwara. Āryarakṣitasūri, who is supposed to have died in s. y. 127 (s. y. 114 according to Sri Kalyanavijaya himself), could not have mentioned Padaliptasūri supposed to be born later. The writer therefore considers the 1st century as the correct date of Sri Padalipiasuri.
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