Jambu Jyoti

Author(s): M A Dhaky, Jitendra B Shah
Publisher: Kasturbhai Lalbhai Smarak Nidhi Ahmedabad

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N 199. vāe parāiittā savve vi ya saranam abbhuvagayā te Addaga-sahiyā savve Jina-vīra-sagāsě nikkhantä 1|
N 200.
na dukkarar vā nara-pāsa-moyanam gayassa mattassa vanaṁmi rāyam | jahā u cattavaliena tantuņā su-dukkaraṁ me padihāi moyanaṁ ||
a : thus MSS in T for :ņam;-c: all prints : vattâ
(N 190) That discussion of the monk Gosāla, the brahmin renouncer, the Tridandin, and the elephant ascetic with the venerable Addaka I shall recount just as it happened.
Tidandīņam: at Ţ II 154 b 4 śīlânka holds the speaker of Sūy 2, 6, 46 to be an eka-dandin; see my note on that stanza.
(N 191) In the village of Vasantapura, Sāmāiya went forth into homelessness with his wife. Seen a-begging, she was solicited (by him and therefore brought herself) to refuse food and hang herself.
Vasanta-purae : T II 137 b 1 Magadhā-janapade Vasanta-purako grāmah. modern Basantpur, north of Purnia, Bihar (Jain 1984 : 428).
Ohāsiya : Sa. *avabhāşita (Bollée 1994, s.v.).
Bhatta vehāsaṁ : T II 137 b 7 bhakta-pratyākhyāna-pūrvakam ātmódbandhanam akāri. Mahāvīra disapproved of violent deaths, but made an exception for hanging in extreme circumstances (Settar 1990 : 16 and 22 where our reference, and its combination with terminal fasting, is not dealt with, however).
(N 192) Panic-stricken (and) subject to illusion (he renounced) food, (died and) was reborn in heaven. After ending that course he was reborn as Addaya, the son of Adda, in Addapura.
Mai : ācāryasyânivedyâivasau māyāvi (T II 137 b 9). After this stanza Sīlanka's word commentary is silent till N 200. From N 195-199 the nijjutti's character as a teacher's aid of memory in a religion class becomes particularly clear. My rendering tries to mirror this style, but more than once cannot but be tentative.