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A COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF JAINISM
In the Jaina account namely the Kalpasūtra (149-69) we have, respectively, the names Asasena and Vāmā as the names of Pārsva's parents. The similarity of the names of Pārsva's parents in both the accounts are quite significant. For the father, we have sena-ending names, and for the mother ma-ending ones, and can therefore conclude without any hesitation that the Buddhists knew this twenty-third Tirthamkara as a scion of an aristocratic family of the famous city of Vārānasi. The Buddhists have Phussa lokanāyaka, while the Jainas have the epithet purisādaniya, which is the Prakrta form for puruṣādaniya, and both
the epithets have something in common. 5. See Byhadāranyaka Up., 2.1.1; also Kaușitaki Up., 4.1. 6. See Satapatha, 5.5.5.14. 7. See Kalpasūtravrtti by Samayasundra, pp. 164–5. 8. 1.9; II.5; IX.32 et seq.
9. See Jacobi's translation in SBE, 22, p. 194. 10. See 141 ff. 11. Tenth chapter of the second part. 12. Para 148 (II.1). 13. See Jacobi's translation, SBE, 45, pp. 420 ff. 14. For a discussion on Pārsva's date, see infra. 15. See under 'Nāthaputta' and 'Nirgrantha' in Malalasekera's Dictionary
of Pāli Proper Names. 16. See 157 ff. 17. See Sir Asutosh Mukherjee Silver Jubilee Volume, III, p. 74. 18. See Kalpasutra, 163. 19. Ibid., 164.
