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chielly from the Ksaliija aristocracy and organized them into a con: munity with lay membois diawn from both the seves. With Vahāvīra, the race of Jama piophcts or Tilthanhara comes to an end
From the materials at our disposal, 10 are neither in a position to assign the dates of the discicnt stages of the missionary Climatics of of Mahāvīra not to idenusy with precision the different towns and cities he visited All that we know definitely is that ile aica of lus travels is very extensive embracing the whole of India from the Bay of Bengal 10 thic Arabian sca From the account given below me get firstly an appioximate idea of the dimensions of lus trauch We do not exactly know when i whence he started his spiritual 1011 Bul the cilies he visited may be thus ananged on the approximalc conii. guity of geograplucal locauons. It may bc acider that some of the cities he visited havc not yet been identificat Thus beginning from Campaha in Anga, he made hus paicparctic ious and 11.11 Cisco throngia Rājagrhia, Nālandā, Milulā, Vaišãli, Benaics, llambhiha, Kampilla, Srāvastī, Panilabhūmi, Polāšapura, Vardhamāna (Gwciat), sugāma, etc 10 In addition to the above cities Loid Malāvīrā visited Bhadiche, Sāhanjani, Pādalasanda, Sonyapua, Rohida, Hasumāpura, Usabhapura, Virapuia, Parimatala cily'! Ho made l.sy-concats and disciples in the Jaina monasteries located in the following important ciuics -(1) Kāmadeva at Punnabhadde sanctuary, in the suburb of Campaka,. () Vijaya at Rājagi ha, (3) a Brahmın, Bāhula, at Kollaga, suburb of Śrāvastī,4 (4) Ananda of Vanijagrāma ai Dūpalasa monastcry in the same city15 (5) Chulanıpıya at Kolhaga monastciy, in the suburb of Benares 16 (6) Chullasayaga inn the garden of Sankhavāna in the suburb of Ābabhiya,"7 (1) Kundaloliya in the garden of Sahassambhavana ni
10a Jaina Sūtras, pait I, p 264 10b Kalpa Sütia And Nava Tativa, p 91 11 Vivagasuyam, pp 1-132 12 The Uvāsagadasão, vol II, pp 64, 81, 85. 13 Ibid, appendix 1, p. 1 14 Ibrd, p 2 15 Ibid, vol. II, pp 9 10. 16. Ibid, p go 17. Ibid, p. 103.
