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Pasanay ǎ After living one hundred years life he attained liberation on the summit of mount Sammeya.17 His liberation took place 250 years before Mahavira's emancipation18 and (he was born) 83750 years after Ariṭṭhanemi's salvation.19 Pasa had paid visits to Amalakappa, Savatthi, Campā, Nāgapura, Sageya, Arakkhuri, Mahura(1), Rayagiha, Kampillapura, Kosambi, Hatthiṇaura etc.20
See Imdabhui and Kesi(1) for the Law preached by Pasa which recognises four vows and allows clothes to a monk.21 For Pasa's association with Kamatha, Dharana and Padmavatī the reader may be referred to Samayasundara's commentary on Kalpasūtra."
The five most important events of Pasa's life occured when the moon was in conjunction with constellation Visāhā: (1) decending from heaven and entry into the mother's womb, (2) birth, (3) renunciation (4) omniscience and (5) emancipation.23 As regards his name he was named Päsa in view of the fact, the commentrators say, that before his birth his mother saw in the dark a black serpent crawling near (pasa-pārsva) her bed. 24 According to Sanskrit commentators, Prabhavati, the daughter of Prasenajit was married to Pasa.25
Whenever Mahavira has referred to Pasa, he has done so in reverential terms. He calls him 'Araha Purusādāṇie'26 (i.e. worthy to be worshipped and followed). We have references to the effect that Mahāvīra agreed with many of the teachings of Pasa, viz.. asankhejje loe (innumerable pradeśas of the universe), ana tā rätimdiya (infinite days and nights) Sasae loe, anad e loe (unending and beginningless universe) etc.27
17. Kalp. 168, Sam. 70, 100, AvaN. 305. 18. AvaBh. 17.
19. Ibid. 16.
20. Jaa. 148-158, Nir. 4.1, AvaCu. II. p. 202, AvaN. 234.
21. Utt.Ch. 23, Bha. 226, 378, UttCu. p. 264.
22. KalpSam. pp. 164-5.
2. Pasa (Pasa) Same as the Misa country.1
1. Praj. 37.
3. Pāsa A non-jain sage in Titthayara Pasa's tirtha, recognised as Patteyabuddha 1
1. Risi. 31, Risi (Sangrahani)
Pasaṇaya (Pasyatṭā)
23. Kalp. 149, Sth. 411.
24. AvaN. 1098, KalpDh. p. 133, KalpV p. 204.
25. KalpDh.
p. 133, KalpV. p. 204 KalpL. p. 112.
26. Bha. 226, 378, Jna. 148-158.
27. Bha. 226, 378, BhaA. pp. 269, 455.
1. Praj. v. 7, PrajM. p. 529.
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