Doctrine of Jainas

Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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DOCTRINE OF THE JAINAS guished by their names (Samav. 152b) the 12 cakkaval ti are also distinguished by their bodily size?, but this they share with the baladeva and vasudeva on the one hand and with the titthagara on the other. Their period, too, is the disama-susamā with the exception of Bharaha who already lived in the susama-düsamā as did the ist Titthagara. But there are still other relations cxisting between the two species. The 5th to the 7th grand-sovereigns came to be the 16th to the 18th tilthigara, and of the latter the first was actually an emperor (Samav. 42b), cven though he is not listed as such a one.
In the following we give the Svet -names of the series2 in Bharata as have been discussed above. The kulagara temporally precede the cakkavattī, Bharaha is the son of Usabha. The 5 first members of the series 2 to 4 lic between cakk. 2 and 3, the 6th and 8th fall in the time of cakk. 7 and 9, the 7th and gth lie between cakk 8 and 9, and between 11 and 12 resp.3.
1. cakkavatti : Bharaha, Sagara, Meghavam, Sanamkumāra, Santı4, Kunthu“, Ara“, Subhūma, Mahāpauma Harisena, Jayanāma or -sena, Bambhadatta.—2. baladeva : Ayala, Vijaya, Bhadda, Suppabha, Sudamsana, Ānanda, Nandaņa, Pauma (=Rāma Dāśarathi), Rāma (=Balarāma).-3 vasudeva : Tivittha (-tthü), Duvittha, Sayambhū, Purisuttama, Purisasiha, Purisapundariya, Datta, Nārāyana, Kanha --4. padisallu : Assaggīva, Tāraga, Meraga, Mahukedhava, Nisumbha, Bali,
1 The size most certainly also determined the measures of thc thrcc giant figures representing Bharaha's younger brother Bahubalı Acc to the lcgend Bh himsclf raised a statuc to him with B mcasuring 335 dhanu He is often called Kāmadeva among other names, and acc to M GOVIND PAL IHO. 4, 270-286, the Kanaresc name of Gommata, by the mediation of the Konkani, stems from the synonymous word Manmatha The most ancient, largest and most famous of the three statucs (57 ft high) was raised about 980 AĎ by Camunda Rāya-Gommaţa Rāya near Sravana Bclgola in Mysore, a sccond, dated Saka 1353, near Karkala, and a third, dated 1525 by Saka, near Yenur (Venur),both places in South-Kanara Comp PAL ibd , VENKATASUBBIAH IHQ 6, 290-309 , early reports by MACKENZIE IA 2, 129-133, BURNELL ibd 353-357
2 For the deviations of thc Dig see v GLASENAPP, Fcstgabc f Jacobi, p 337f
3 Comp the tables AV 242a and v GLASENAPP, Jainismus, p 261
4 titth 16–18 ( b ) JACOBI (SBE 45, 86) thinks it possible that this name developed from Kakutstha, but this derivation asks for a number of hypothetical links