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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(OCTOBER, 1891.
In the space of 100 years there arose five Sruta-Kêvalips: vis. Vishņunandin for 14, Nandimitra for 16 years, Aparajita for 22, Govardhana for 19, and Bhadrabahu (I.) for 29 years. These five Acharyas were 'Sruta-Kêvalins within the space of 100 years.
$ 3. Up to this time the text of the eleven Angas and the fourteen Pârvas was known by memory, and books did not exist. The words of the Twelve Augas55 amounted to one hundred and twelve krôr, eighty-three läkh, fifty-eight thousand and five (i.e. 1,128358,005).56
One slika of words consists of thirty-two aksharas. Accordingly there are fifty-one kror, eight lakh, eighty-four thousand, six hundred and twenty-one slökas (.e. 510 884,621).57
In the writing of these twelve Angas there was employed a total of thirty-five thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight krôç, thirty-three lakh, one hundred and twenty-eight ankas of ink (i. e, 359,983'300,128).
In the writing of one thousand slökas there is spent one paisá worth of ink ; (hence) in the writing of all of them was spent as much as forty tólás.
6 4. After this, i. e., 162 years after Mabavira, there arose 11 Munis who knew (only) ten Parvas; (as related in the following three Gâthâs :) -
(1) “One hundred and sixty-two years having passed, there arose eleven great Munis, for one hundred and eighty-three years, who knew (only) ten Angas; viz.,
(2) "The Acharyas Visakha, Porthala, Khattiya, Jayasuņa, Nagasèņa, Siddhattha, Dhitti, Vijaya, Buhilinga, Deva and Dhamasena;
(3) " (For whom) years ten, nineteen, seventeen, twenty-one, eighteen, seventeen, righteen, thirteen, twenty, fourteen, fourteen are to be counted respectively." (7-9.)
From the year 162 after Mahavira there lived the Acharya Visakha for 10 years; from 172 after Vira, the Acharya Proshthila, for 19 years; from 191 after Vira, the Acharya Kshatriya, for 17 years; from 208 after Vîra, the Acharya Jayasêna, for 21 years; from 229 after Vira, the Acharya Nagasena, for 18 years; from 247 after Vira, the Acharya Siddhartha, for 17 years; from 264 after Vira, the Acharya Dhritisêna, for 18 years; from 282 after Vira, the Acharya Vijaya, for 13 years; from 295 after Vira, the Acharya Buddhilinga, for 20 years; from 315 after Vira, the Acharya Deva (L.), for 14 years ; from 329 after Vira, the Acharya Dharmasúna. For the space of 183 years there existed men who knew (only) ten Pârvas, 1. e., for one hundred and eighty-three years.
$5. In the writing of these ten Púrvas were used forty tslás of ink, (and) eleven thousand, one hundred and thirty-five krôs, and two likh, fifty-eight thousand, three hundred and ninety-three sérs of leaves [i. e., 111,350%258,393].
Now these texts were in the memory of the 11 Âchiryas, and there were not yet any books.
$ 6. After these events these arose men who knew (only) eleven (or less) Aigas, for 220 years.69 Among these men, for 123 years, there were five successions of men who knew (only) eleven Augis ; (nus related in the following two and one-half) Gathis:
86 The fourtoen Pârvas being counted together as the twelfth Anga. 66 The same number will be found given in Prof. Bhandarkar's Report for 1897, p. 107-110.
67 This number, multiplied by 32, gives a total of 16,349 307.872 ukwhuras. Prof. Bhandarkar, ibid., does tot state the number of slikar, but gives the total of the aksharan as 16,319,307,888. This, divided by 32, gives the number of blokas as 510,884,621 and . His pattávali, therefore, must have counted one-half slaku more thau the present pattavall.
58 The text is here not clearly expressed. It reads as if the period of 220 years referred to the Eleven-Aig. dharins only. But from what follows later on, it is clear, that that period is understood to be made up of the two periods of 123 years and 97 years of all the Angins of diminishing knowledge.
