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Arya Bhadrabāhu
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110. Some scholars think that it was the Tarai area of Nepāla. 111. In fact more number of Bhadrabāhu-s are implied : 1) The first, of the Mauryan
one, contemporary of Candragupta; 2) The second of the period of Maurya Samprati; 3) The third, a contemporary of the Digambara Guptigupta who was Candragupta; 4) The fourth a contemporary of Varāhamihira who was the author of the Niryuktis; and the fifth was a Svetāmbara monk who composed the Jina sahasranāma-stotra. See, however, Schubring's obervation based on Leumann's statement : 'IEUMANN, however, points out that, in this list that already existed in the eighth century, "the second Bh. is but a chronistic repetation..." (The
Doctrine., p. 53.) 112. See R. Champakalakshmi, “9 South India,” Jaina Art and Architecture, Vol. 1,
(Ed. A. Ghosh), Bhāratīya Jñānapītha, New Delhi 1974, pp. 92-103. 113. This, to me, seems a plausibility. Schubring, on a related point, thus notes:
"The inner reasons are explained by IEUMANN, Übersicht p. 26f.” (The Doctrine., p. 47, infra.) What these 'inner reasons' in their perception were, cannot be guessed untill we have the translation in English of the Leumann's famous and
oft-referred to work. 114. The recent discovery of the remains of a Jaina stūpa at Vaddamanu founded
C. B. C. the first century. (Cf. T. V. G. Shastri et al, Vaddamanu Excavations (1981-85), Birla Archaeological and Cultural Institute, Hyderabad, Hyderabad
1992. 115. Implicitly from Bengal and Orissa. It is easier to enter Andhradeśa by land route;
and to the Tamil country, by sea route, particularly to the Pandyan country via
some port such as Nāgapattinam. 116. These date from c. A. D. 300 in Gangavādi and from c. A. D. 464 or so in
Kadambavādi. (I here forgo stating the related details.)
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