Jain Journal 2006 07

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

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Chitta Ranjan Pal: Mahamuni Jambusvami and Bengal
that Arya Jambu of kasyapa gotra was the disciple of Arya Sudharman and Jambu's disciple was Prabhava, nothing else regarding Jambu is found in this holy book.19
Bappabhaṭṭi Sūri (9th century A.D.) is said to have organised a restoration of the ruined Jaina temples of Mathura. As his restoration activities were confined to Kankhali Tila area it is to be surmised that Bappabhatti was not aware of, rather he was ignorant of, any Siddha kṣetra at Chaurasia.20
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The great Jaina scholar monk, Jinaprabha Sūri (14th century A.D.) had visited Mathura and has an intimate knowledge of the geographical features and religious position of Mathura and its surroundings, but he never spoke of Chaurasia as the place of attainment of Nirvana as well as Omniscience of Jambusvāmī.21
The great Jaina savant Hemacandra, popularly known as the Kalikālasarvajña, had described the early life of Jambusvāmī, in some details, in his celebrated book Parisiṣṭaparvan, but he had written nothing of Jambu's association with Chaurasia in Mathura. If Jambūsvāmī had any association with Chaurasia, it would have been mentioned by Hemacandrācārya.”
On the other hand, there is a strong ground to believe that Chaurasia had come to be connected with the name of mahāmuni Jambūsvāmī during the second half of the 16th century A.D. or during the reign of Akbar, the greatest Mughel Emperor.
In the Hirasaubhagyakāvya it has been stated that the great Svetambara monk Hīra Vijayasūri after his conversation with Akbar had visited Mathura to pay homage to the temples of Pārsvanatha and Jambusvāmī.23
19. K. C. Lalwani, Kalpasūtra
20&21.D. R. Bhandarkar (ed). Jinaprabhasūri's Tīrthakalpa.
22.
Hermann Jacobi's. Parisiṣṭaparvan. p. xxxv ff.
23&24. Prabhudayal Mittal, Pracin Brajamandal me Jain Dharma kā Vikās.