Prakrit Proper Names Part 1

Author(s): Mohanlal Mehta, K R Chandra, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Ajiyasāmi
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householder's life for a period of seventy-one lakh purvas he renounced the world along with one thousand men. On that occasion he used the Suppabhā(2) palanquin. He received álms for the first time from Bambhadatta(2). He became omniscient after twelve years. His sacred tree was saptaparņa. He had ninety groups of monks and the same number of group-leaders under him. He lived for a period of seventy-two lakh pūrvas (18 as a prince, 53 as a king and I as an omniscient) and then attained emancipation10. There were maximum number of fiery beings as well as human beings in the time of Ajiya.11 His first woman-disciple was Phaggu and maledisciple was Sīhaseņa(6).12 He had one lakh monks and three lakh thirty thousand nuns under him.13 Ajiya was Vimala(4) in his previous birth.11 5. Sam. 71, Visk. p. 785, AvaN. 224, AvaN. 266, the number is ninety-five. Tir. 391.
10. AvaN. 272, 278, 303. 6. Sam. 157, AvaN. 327.
11. Visk. p. 213, AvaCu. I. pp. 39, 487. 7. Ava M. pp. 205-7.
12. Sam. 157, Tir. 443, 457. 8. Sam. 157, Tir. 405.
13. AvaN. 256, 260. 9. Sam. 90, Tir. 443, According to 14. Sam. 157.
Ajiyasāmi (Ajitaswāmin) Same as Ajiya.
1. AvaCu. I. pp. 39, 487.
1. Ajiyaseņa (Ajitasera) A preceptor who had been to Sāvatthi. Kbuddagakumāra was his disciple.
1. AvaN. 1283, AvaCu. II. p. 191, AvaH. p. 701.
2. Ajiyasena King of Kosa mbi. Dhāriņi(13) was his wife. He had no son of his own but had adopted that of Dhāriņi(26). The story runs as under : Pajjota, the king of Ujjeņi had two sons : Pālaa(2) and Gopālaa. Palaa again had two sons : Avamtivaddhaņa and Rajjavaddhaņa. The name of the wife of Rajjavaddhana was Dhāriņi(26) and their son was Avamtiseņa. King Avamtivaddhana killed his younger brother Rajjavaddhana to subjugate his wife Dhārini on being bewildered by her beauty. To protect her character Dhārini fled to Kosambi and became a nun. The fact that she was pregnant at that time was not disclosed to any one. In due course she gave birth to a son who was abandoned in an isolated place. King Ajiyasena who had no son, saw the child lying there, lifted it and took it to his palace. He adopted it as his son. The boy was named Manippabha(1). He became the king of Kosambi and Avamtisena that of Ujjeņi. Later on the latter attacked the former and there was a fight between the two. Nun Dhārini the mother of both of them, revealed the truth to them that they were real brothers. Then they stopped fighting and made a treaty.
1. AvaCu. II. pp. 189-190, AvaH. p. 699.