Mahanisiha Studies And Edition In Germany

Author(s): Chandrabhal Tripathi
Publisher: Chandrabhal Tripathi

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English rendering:
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Haribhadrasūri has said: many Doctors could not put right faith in certain passages in this fourth chapter, and neither he, following their precedence. That does not however concern the complete fourth chapter, or even other chapters, but only certain specific passages in this one only.
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Because it is in no way told in the Sthäna, Samaväya, Jiväbhigama, Prajñāpanā and other books: There is a (country called) Pratisamtāpasthala where there are cave-dwellers who are reborn seven or eight times as specially worse sinners and who can suffer tormentation for one year after their fall into rocky hemisphere like grinding stones without dying.
Since long it is being told: we have an authentic sutra before us, wherein nothing has been changed. This text-block is of multifarious contents and especially the proclamations of the ganadharas which are in themselves extraordinary are of special value.
Under such circumstances there is nothing to be doubted.
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Chandrabhal Tripathi
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The granthågra verse reads (A.Weber, SLJ,p.185; MNSt.A,p.4,fn.1; B.p.174,fn.1; Punyavijaya, Cat.ŚBh.Cby.p.60,# 34, p.61,#35; Kapadia, Cat.BhORI, 17.2,p.31,#457): cattāri sahassāim panca-sayão tahêva *cattări*/
cattāri silogā viya Mahänisihammi päeņa //4544.
Schubring (B.p.174,fn.1) suggests that in place of cattäri one should rather expect cālīsam. Variants in Cat.ŚBh.Cby, # 34 are: *pancasa", ganthaggam (instead of paena),
and 4554.