Correlation of Jaina Inscriptions with Sthaviravalis

Author(s): U P Shah
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Correlation of Jaina Inscriptions with Sthavirävalis
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On the analogy of the name Uccenā garī (of the city Uccenagara-modern Bulandas'ahara)+ shall we suppose that there was a place called Vajranagara from which was derived the Vajranagarī sākha ?
Arya Mangu was a famous and revered pontiff having considerable/ proficiency in śruta or the Jaina Canon and was a prabhāvaka ācārya. The Himavanta Sthavirāvali (supposed to be spurious) says that Arya Mangu was a pupil of Arya Samudra. In this context we must note the order of gathās of the Nandisutra Sthaviravali :
हारियगत्तं साइंच, वंदिमो हारियं च सामज्जं । वन्दे कोसियगोत्तं संडिलं अज्जजीयधरं ।।२६॥
तिसमुद्दखायकित्ति दीवसमुद्देसु गहियपेयालं । वन्दे अज्जसमुदं अक्खुभियसमुद्दगंभीरं ।।२७||
भणगं करगं झरगं पभावगंणाणदंसणगुणाणं । वंदामि अज्जमंगू सुयसागरपारगं धीरं ।।२८।।
Next come two verses which are not commented upon by the author of the Nandi cūrni nor by Haribhadra sūri in his commentary and which are not found in all manuscripts of theNandisutra. Editors of thePattāvali-Samuccaya, part 1, give them as extra verses found in some mss. only and do not give them continuous numbers. Even in the critical edition of the Nandi-sūtra published by the Mahāvira Jaina Vidyālaya these were not accepted as verses of the original text and are treated as doubtful. They are :
वंदामि अज्जधम्म, वंदे तत्तो अ भद्दगुत्तं च । तत्तो अ अज्जवयरं, तवनियमगुणेहि वयरसमं ।। वंदामि अज्जरक्खिअ-खमणे रक्खिअचरित्त सव्वस्से। रयणकरंडगभूओ, अणुओगो रक्खिओ जेहिं ।।
-पट्टावली समुच्चय, I. p. 13.
Then we have :
नाणम्मि दंसणम्मि य तवविणए णिच्चकालमुज्जुत्तं । अज्जानंदिलखमणं, शिरसा वंदे पसन्नमणं ॥२९॥
–णंदिसुत्त, (Bombay ed p. 6)
+ Ucchera in M.P. according to Sagarmal Jain.-Editors.