Book Title: Life in Ancient India as Depicted in Jain Canons
Author(s): Jagdishchandra Jain
Publisher: New Book Company

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________________ MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 227 also employed various medicines for causing impregnation and miscarriages Sometimes when the Jam stius were wavlaid in a forest, they placated the silvan deity by means of hiyozuvga The Ozarra mentions the disciples 1 Jahāvila who possessed various supernatural poners Soncured the clochesmrl tur luns i paricnt with their hand $ltimes, the pllgir of anothic in multilthen used as medicines to Luuc discase B. the of charms coullas-um an form at will icchi con risc through ara . N ould repeat the whole stanza by reciting the first gratci Nitre 10 their purch became as swecl as nullh' Sencrinitriu pengle d fuum , the country was beau! bitheaman: curli ... Juiste ! enlargement of gin alagutat i udi 14 (I ... , e ueܐ، ، ، ، ܙuܐ ܕܐܐܼ ،ܝܕܕ | ܢ";I 1 , ܙ ' ?_ '} ܐܙ ܐܙ ܙ ܙ turܬܬ ܬܪ ܝ ceptor male middle, which used the chius o la ubsided 11 During the tunc of Ichigou- los en 0 Chaving victory the monks einployed ranous chun cinc spells 12 There were books on magic Releierce las been made to u n ' ruch was an important work on this subject luas taled that the person cred in this work could generatc ei en animate objecu Sulun jcial stated to have created magical hc) es following the 1.7ictions are con in this work.13 The devices such as making a bufalo unconclous were also mentioned in fomnihyda' The group of luni, page and many is considcied as one of the thiee super human qualitics Sca, 'I lie ditlerence betti con ciri and manta is that the former is accomplished by riliun magical pr. tices and is presided over by cutam fimale dei such as Prullen etc, while the latter is accomplished just burcuit parlheres d'ind is picked over by a male deity, such as Hammam ir jogus a chain or magical incantation which produces camily alluiement (indication of thc enemy and cures diseases, 17 or it is defined - a magical power of using through air by anointing onc's lect's It is stated that the hulapalı ol Bambhadiva possessed this lore and on slami, calidasi and othe: festival days, used to walk on the surface of river 19 Then lyja laua was accomplished in this lore and by rising in the sky he went fiom Puriya to Alülesari to 8 See Pinda Vir 497-511 Bth. Bhā 1 3108 10 Khırāsaialaduhi, si 13 p 52, also la cú pp 395 f 11 Brh Bhā 4 3106-3113 13 See Uttară Ti 3, n 72 19 Also cf arī tū 1, 373, Bik Bhi 2 2081 14 Iva Bhū i 38 ako se Saja Ti,8, p 165a Punda Bhā 44 , Prabhicahacarita. V. 113-127 Panlasz ana Muni is slated to be the author of Jonipähuda see Irch anta, July Sept.Oct 1939 15 Brh Bha 1 1237 16 Visi cü p 748, Brh Bhā 1 1233; Ma Ti 1, p 7 17 Visi, cu, 748, 18 Brh. Bhá. 1.1235, also Dadhi āhana Jätaha (No. 186), II, p. 103. 10 Nisi, cū. 13, p 874,

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