Jain Legend Vol 2

Author(s): Hastimal Maharaj, Shuganchand Jain, P S Surana
Publisher: Hastimal Maharaj Shugan C Jain P S Surana

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as per the texts of vet mbara sect, there were only two c ryas with the name Bhadrab hu, of which one is Caturda a Prvadhara Bhadrab hu and the other, occult c rya Bhadrab hu. The following folk tale about occult c rya Bhadrab hu is quite famous:
P vaya 1, dhammakah 2, v 3, emittio 4, tavassi 5 ya, vijj
6, siddho 7, ya kai 8, atteva pabh vag bha iy 1/1//
Ajjarakkha 1, nandise o 2, sirigutta vi eya 3, bhaddhab hu 4 ya Khavaga 5, jjakhavuda 6, samiy 7, div yaro 8, va ih hara // 2||
Among the eight influnetials, occult c rya Bhadrab hu was considered as the fourth influntial c rya. From the ancient times, there has been a unanimous opinion in the vet mbara sect that the four Cheda S tras - Da a ruta Ska dha, Kalpas tra, Vyavah ra S tra and Ni tha S tra, the
va yaka Niryuktis etc., the ten Niryuktis, Uvasaggahara Stotra and Bhadrab hu Samhit , these 16 texts in all were written by Bhadrab hu Swm (earlier in this book). Out of these 16 the four Ched S tra s were written by rutakeval Bhadrab hu is already proved with evidences. In such circumstances, the rest 12 texts might have been written by occult
c rya Bhadrab hu, because in vet mbara literature, except for these two, there is no mention of a third Bhadrab hu.
In the ancient scriptures of vet mbara sect, as Bhadrab hu and Var hamihira were described as siblings, the information about them is given together. Hence if the period of Var hamihira is decided it automatically resolves the period of Bhadrab hu.
In the end of his text "Pamcasiddh ntik , Var hamihira wrote a sloka, and mentioned that it was written in 427 aka era. On the basis of this, it can be certain that alongwith Var hamihira, occult crya Bhadrab hu
ust have lived around 427 aka era (vikram 562 year and 1032 V.N.).
A profound analysis of these facts makes it clear that the biographies of
rutakeval Bhadrab hu who held the c rya rank between 156 to 170 V.N. and Bhadrab hu, the great occult crya (Naimittika) who lived around 1032 V.N. were in course of time mixed up with each other and in the process all the events of both their lives, were attributed to the first Bhadrab hu alone, completely forgetting the second one. The confusion, that Caturda a Prvadhara Bhadrab hu was the author of the Niryuktis
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