Jain Journal 1992 07

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

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JULY, 1992
himself; the history (12, 2) of Jayanti (aunt of the Kosambi king Udāyaṇa, son of Sayaniya (Satānika) grandson of Sahassaniya) who was the patron of the Vesalisävayas, and who, after hearing the sermon of Mahavira, became a bhikkhuni.
All these legends, [302] the number of which will be materially increased by a special investigation of the contents give us the impression of containing traditions which have been handed down in good faith. They offer, therefore, in all probability (especially as they frequently agree with the Buddhistic legends) most important evidence for the period of the life of Mahavira himself.
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Among those statements which may be adduced as witnesses for the first composition of the existing form of the text, an enumeration of foreign peoples asserts the chief place. The names of these peoples recur frequently in some customary form in the remaining texts of the Siddhanta, though accompanied by numerous variations of detail.243 In 9, 33, 12, 2 there are enumerated the foreign female slaves and waiting maids in the house of a rich mahaṇa (brāhmaṇa); consequently the names are all feminine: bahūhim khujjahim Cilätiyahim244 vamaniyahim245 vaḍahiyahim246 Babbariyahim247 Isiganiyahim Vasaganiyahim248 Palhaviyāhim Hläsiyahim Lausiyahim Arabihim Damilähim Simhalihim Pulimdihim Pukkalihim249 Bahalihim Muramdihim (Marumd Abh.) Samvarihim (Sav Abh.) Pārasihim nänādesividesa paripimḍiyahim Of these names Palhaviyā, [303] Arabi, Bahali, Muramḍi, and Pārasi are of special interest, since they deal with a period from the second till the fourth century A. D., the age of the Parthian Arsacids and the Persian Sassanids; cf. on Pahlavas (Parthians), Noldeke's remarks in my History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 338; on Muramḍa, Ind. Stud. XV. 280, on Bahli, Bactria, Monatsberichte der Konial. Akad, der Wiss. 1879, p. 462. The Marundas especially appear together with the Sakas
243 I do not propose here to enter into a detailed discussion of these variations; see anga 6.1,117 (Steinthal, p. 28) up. 1,55 (Leumann, p. 60) etc. Besides this enumeration, there is another which occurs only in those texts which are characterized as younger from the fact that they contain this second enumeration. I refer to that of the Mlecchas, in which some fifty (not sixteen) names are quoted; see anga 10, up. 4.
244 Cilatadesot panna Abh. cf. Kirata.
245 Hrasvasarirabhiḥ Abh.
246 Vaḍabhiyahim maḍahakoṣṭhabhiḥ Abh. (vakradhaḥkoṣṭhabhiḥ Schol. on up. 1).
247 Abh. adds Vausiyahim.
248 Varuganiyahim Abh. who adds Joniyahim after this name.
249 Pakka Abh.