Book Title: Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra
Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
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INTRODUCTION
'Jain Mantravāda and Caityavāsis' we stated how the Mantric literature comprised in the tenth Pūrva, Vidyānupravāda may reasonably be supposed to belong to the age of Sri Pārsvanātha. Then we stated how he has been invoked in the hymn Uvasaggaharam and described the life led by several Pārsvāpatyās who employed Nimitta involving use of Mantras and Vidyās for obtaining necessaries of life and how Māntrikas adopted Sri Pārsvanātha as the Mantric deity par excellence.* Dharaṇendra, the principal attendant-deityx of Sri Pārsvanātha is connected with the origin of Vidyās as stated above. Naturally, therefore, Vidyādharas + as well as all Sadhakas of Mantras and Vidyās especially worshipped Sri Pārsvanātha. 'Purisādāņiya'-respected by the people-is the title of Sri Pārsvanātha given in Kalpasūtra which aptly describes his popularity not only during his life but also thereafter. Moreover those Mantras and Vidyās become popular of which the presiding deities are alert and respond quickly. It is believed that the attendant deities of Sri Pārsvanātha are alert and respond at once when invoked. Further from Jnātādharmakathānga II Srutaskandha it appears that many of the female ascetic disciples of Sri Pārsvanātha became on their death the chief queens of Indras of different heavenly regions. All the chief queens of the twenty Indras of Bhuvanapatideities, of sixteen Indras of Vyantara--deities, of the Moon and the
* After Sri Bhadrabāhu, Sri Padaliptasūri also invoked Sri Pārsvanātha in a Mantric hymn of 7 verses which is in the writer's collection. We give here the first and the last verses thereof: 74salg, Fangforfafaragace
नामग्गहणं वज्ज धरेइ न हु तस्स उवसग्गा ॥१॥
इय (मह) सप्पहावेगवीस-मंतक्खरगभिय-महाथुत्तं ।
पालित्तयथुयमहिये, विनत्तं भवमुक्खकरं ॥७॥ * "faster or a FAUT 434193-1997€ asti
धरणो विज्जादेवी सोलसऽहिद्वायगा जस्स ॥" श्रीपार्श्वनाथ कल्प + "34777faa: ETETHET Fra faarata astator |
पूर्व हि वैताढयगिरौ जिनं तं वन्दे सदा शङ्खपुरावतंसम् ॥"
