Jain Journal 1975 07

Author(s): Jain Bhawan Publication
Publisher: Jain Bhawan Publication

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a few centuries B.C. back up to about the tenth Century A.D. As pointed out, there have been found some inscritptions recorded on the thrones of images, Ayaga-paṭṭas, etc. In some of them there is clear mention of the ankas (periods) of the names of the Kusana Kings like Kaniska, Huviska, Vasudeva, etc. and the year of their reign by which it is proved that they flourished in the beginning of the Christian era. There is reference to this stūpa in the oldest Jaina works 69 in which it is stated that it was built in memory of Suparsvanatha and its repair was made at the time of Parsvanatha. It is called God-built. It is not surprising that this oldest stupa was constructed in the period prior to that of Mahavira. There is mention of five stupas of Mathura in Vairakumara Kathanaka (Verse 132) of Harisena's Kathākoșa. From here probably pañcastupanvaya of Jaina monks started in the past. A reference to this, anvaya is found in a copper plate of Paharpur (Dinajpur, Bengal) of the Gupta Samvat 150 (478 A.D.), according to which there was a Jaina Vihara at Vata Gohali at that time. A donation was given to the Nirgrantha Acarya of this Vihara for the worship of Arhatas. This Acarya was stated to be the disciple of Acarya Guhanandi of Pañcastupa Nikaya of Benaras 70. The authors of Dhavala Tikā, Virasena and Jinasena (8th-9th Cen. A.D.) also belonged to this branch. Mention of this anvaya has been made by Gunabhadra, the disciple of Jinasena in the Uttara-purāṇa as Senanvaya. Since then the identity of this anvaya by the name of Senagana is found even to-day as it branches and sub-branches in continuous unbroken line. The parampară of Mathura's stūpa continued upto the time of the Mughal emperor Akbar, because the Jaina Pandit Rajamalla of that period had written in Jambusvāmīcarita that there were five hundred and fifteen old stūpas at Mathura, the repair of which was made by Seth Todar Malla the finance minister of Akbar, with unlimited expenditure?1.
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The Jaina Missions in Central India.
It appears from the study of the Agamic evidences that the influence of Jainadharma extended to Central India during the time of Mahavira as king Candapradyota of Ujjain himself felt the impact of the spiritual leadership of the Master, while all his queens Angiravati and others took to asceticism at the hands of the latter with the permission of the former72. Besides, the conquest of Ujjain by king Udayana of SindhuSauvira, who inflicted a crushing defeat on king Candapradyota for his
69 Bharatiya Sanskritimen Jaindharmka Yogadan, p. 34.
70 Ibid., p. 34.
71 Ibid., p. 34.
72 Av. Cu., p. 88 f.