Book Title: Nav Smarana Author(s): Vinod Kapashi Publisher: Vinod KapashiPage 41
________________ diagram of adhi dvipa is shown here. In adhi dvipa basically there are three types of areas or 'planets'. They are: The South area (Bharat kshetra) has five parts as follows: The first south, then the second south which is divided into two, and the third south which also is divided into two parts. Therefore there are five Bharat Kshetras. The other areas in the North are called the Erävat Kshetra and this too is divided into five parts as above. Then there is a vast area in the middle, which also has five parts. This one is called the Mahä-videha kshetra. Thus, there are fifteen areas (karma-bhoomis) To simplify the matter, I have numbered them on the illustration. According to Jain cosmology, and the possibility of the Tirthankaras being born at any given time, it is said that there was a time when one hundred and seventy Tirthankaras were living in these fifteen different areas. Each of the first ten areas had one Tirthankara at that time making ten Tirthankaras in all. On top of this, during that same period, there were one hundred and sixty Tirthankaras in the central Mahä-videha kshetra. Thus altogether there were one hundred and seventy Tirthankaras, which is a maximum possible number of living Tirthankaras at any given time. This recitation, the Tijaya-pahutta stotra, has been composed keeping this belief in mind. The poet recognises that there was a time when this phenomenon of the maximum number of Tirthankaras living simultaneously occurred. The poet 'celebrates' this phenomenon by composing the stotra. Now the style of composition is certainly different. The poet here shows how to create a yantra and worship it. The magical number one hundred and seventy is broken down in a certain manner and various numbers have been placed in the squares of the yantra. When you add the numbers horizontally, vertically or diagonally it adds up to one hundred and seventy. The method of placing numbers together with placing different mantra-seeds in the yantra is explained here. 7.1 Translation: (1) I bow down to all the Tirthankaras who are capable of brightening the lights of the three worlds, having eight guards (pratihäryas) and residing in adhi-dvipa. (2) May the Tirthankaras residing in groups of 25, 80, 15 and 50 destroy all the sins of their worshipers. aras reallow to placal line of red an (Comment - Tirthankaras really do not exist in groups of 25, 80, 15 and so on. The poet simply tries to explain how to place these numbers in the yantra which is to be created for worship. The first horizontal line of squares should have these numbers. One can see that these line adds up to one hundred and seventy, i.e. 25 + 80 + 15 + 50 = 170.Page Navigation
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