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OCTOBER, 1891.)
TWO PATTAVALIS OF THE SARASVATI GACHCHHA.
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(1) “Three hundred and forty-five years having passed after the nirvana of the last Jina, five great Munis arose, men who knew eleven Augas; vis.,
(2) “The Achâryas Nakkhatta, Jayapalaga, Pandava, Dhuvasêņa, Kamsa, for years eighteen, twenty, thirty-nine, fourteen, thirty-two (respectively).
(3) "For the space of one hundred and twenty-three years there existed men who knew eleven Angas." (10—12).
From the year 345 after Virs there lived the Acharya Nakshatra, for 18 years; from 363 after Vira, the Âchârga Jayapala, for 20 years; from 383 after Vira, the Acharya Pândava, for 39 years; from 422 after Vira, the Acharya Dhruvasêna, for 14 years; from 436 after Vira, the Acharya Kamsa for 32 years.
$ 7. After (those) 123 years, within the space of 97 years, there arose men who knew (only) ten Angas. From after 123 years there arose 4 successions; (as related in the following two and one-half) Gáthâs: -
(1). “For the space of ninety-seven years there were men who knew ten Aigas or nine or eight Angas; vis.,
(2) “Subhadda and Jasôbhadda, Bhaddabâhu and Lôbâchajja, the lord of Munis, who spake the doctrine of the Jina.
(3) "Six, eighteen, twenty-three, fifty-two (respectively) were the years of these lordly Manis ; two hundred and twenty were the years of all (these) men who knew ten or nine or eight Angas." (12—14.)
Within the space of 97 years, there were 4 successions. From the year 468 after Vira there was the Acharya Subhadra, for 6 years ; from 474 after Vira, the Acharya Yasôbhadra, for 18 years; from 492 after Vira, the Acharya Bhadrabahu-jf (II.)for 23 years; from 515 after Vîra, Lôhâchárya-ji, for 50 years,59 Thus there were 97 years. The number of Augas went on diminishing through the space of 220 years.
$ 8. In the writing of the eleven Angas the expenditure of ink was one thousand, two hundred and eighty-one krôr, and six lakh, forty-nine thousand, six hundred and sixty-four and one quarter ļanka (i.e, 12, 810 649,664}). In all there were used forty tólás.
These texts were in the memory of the Acharyns, and books did not yet exist.
$ 9. After this, for the space of 118 years, there lived men who knew (only) one Anga; (as related in the following two) Gaths :
(1) "Five hundred and sixty-five years having passed after the nirvana of the last Jina, there arose five men who should be understood to have known one Anga; viz.,
(2) “Ahivalli and Maghanandin, Dharasêņa, Papphayanta, Bhůdavali. Twenty-eighty twenty-one, nineteen, thirty, and twenty, were their years (respectively)." (15, 16.)
$ 10. There were 5 successions of men who knew (only) one Anga. From the year 565 after Vira there was the Acharya Ahivalli60 for 28 years; from 593 after Vira, the Acharya Maghanandin, for 21 years; from 614 after Vira, the Acharya Dharasêna, for 19 years; from 633 after Vira, the Acharya Pushpadanta, for 30 years; from 663 after Vira, the Achârya Bhůtavali, for 20 years; altogether 118 years. For the space of 118 years there were men who knew (only) one Anga; (the knowledge of it) went on declining, till there were only the
# The Gath has 52 years, the change to 50 is an alteration made by the commentator purposely, to barmonino the account of the gathA. See the first note at the end of this paper.
• This would seem to be the same person who is afterwards called Arhadvali or Gaptigupta.
