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350
TER INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
(OCTOBER, 1891.
"Sratajñanins. Up to the year 683 after Mahavira (the knowledge of), the Angas was conserved, Afterwards arose the 'Srutajñanins; (as related in the following) Gatha:
(1) "For the space of one hundred and eighteen years there existed great Manis who knew one Anga. In the year six hundred and eighty-three after the Nirvana of the Jina, the loss of the Angas is said to have been complete." (17.)
Successions of men who know (only) one Anga there were for the space of one hundred and eighteen years. In the writing of the eighteen thousand words of this one Anga there were nsed forty tölds of ink, or 570 047,452, i.e., fifty-seven krør, forty-seven thousand, four hundred and fifty-two tankas.
So much of the sacred) text was in the memory of the Acharyas, and books did not exist.
$11. Further, there shall now be related an account of the successions of the glorious Mula Sangha, (beginning) from the year 683 after the glorious Mahavira. There bad occurred the birth of Vikramaditya. In the year 2 after the Acharya Subhadra's (accession to the pontificate) the birth of Vikrama took place; and in the year 4 of Vikrama's reign Bhadrabâhu-ji (II.) took his seat on the pontifical chair. Bhadrabåhu's disciple was Guptigupta. The latter had three names: 1, Guptigupta, 2, Arhadbalin, 3, Visakhacharya. He had four disciples: 1, Maghaṇandin who at the foot of a Nandi treell kept his rainy seasons, and who established the Nandi Sangha; 2, Vsishabha, who kept his rainy seasons under the tree called Jinasena, and who established the Vțishabha Sangha; 3, Simha, who kept his rainy seasons in the cave of a lion (sinha), and who established the Simha Sangha ; 4, Déva (II.) who kept his rainy seasons in the house of the courtesan Dêvadatta, and who established the Dôva Sangha.
$ 12. The detail is as follows:
In the Nandi Sangha, or the Pârijata Gachchha, or the Baltkara Gama, there are in use four surnames for the Munis, vis., Nandin, Chandra, Kirti and BhAshaņa, or (in other worde) in the Nandi Sangha which is the Sarasvati Gachchha or the Balktkâra Gana; or again in other words) in the Nandi Amnîya which is the Sarasvati Gachchha or the Balatkára Gaņa, of the glorious Mala Sangha, there are in use four names for the Munis, vis., Nandin, Chandra, Kirti and Bhashaņa; and so forth.
$ 13. Here, first of all, there was Bhadrabaho in the year 492 after Vira, 24 after Subhadra, 22 after Vikrama's birth, 4 after Vikrama's accession; (a related in the following two) Gâthâs :
(1). "It was the year four hundred and seventy when the birth of Vikrams took place. For eight years he played as a child, for sixteen he roamed over the country ;(2), for fifteen years he performed sacrifices, being given over to false doctrine; for forty years he was devoted to the religion of the Jina and then obtained heaven." (18, 19).
The knowledge of these Munis went on diminishing. The cause of this was the badness of those times. Then the Muni Bhatavalies and the Muni Pashpadanta collected all the sacred lore in books.
Dated on the fifth day of the bright half of the month Jydehths.
a Tho tree Oedrala Toona, according to Sir M. Williams' Sanskrit Dictionary. It is the well-known Indian mabogany tree, very large and tall troo; see Watt's Economic Products of India, Part VII. p. 68. Nandi appears to be its South Indian (Telugu) name; see ibid., Part VI., p. 37, No. 188.
& The MS. reading is not quite distinot; originally the namber seems to have been 492, but afterward altered to 403. The former is the correct number, we may be seen from the scheme in the first note at the end of thin paper.
The name of this Muní is spelt variously and corruptly throughout, Bhujawali, Bhitavalki, oto. Prof. Bha darbas MS. No. 620, appear also to read Bhatavale.
