Prakrit Proper Names Part 2

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

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Bambhacerasamahiṭhāṇa (Brahmacaryasamādhisthāna) It is also known as Samahiṭhāṇa.2
of Uttarajjhayana.
1. UttCu. pp. 238-243, AvaCu. II. 2. Sam. 36, UttN. p. 9. p. 113.
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Bambhajjhaya (Brahmadhvaja) A heavenly abode just like Bambha(6).1
1. Sam. 11.
Bambhanagama (Brāhmaṇagramia) A place visited by Mahavira. He went there from Suvannakhala. Namda(5) offered here alms to Mahavira while his brother Uvaṇamda(2) to Gosala.1
1. AvaN. 476, Vis. 1930, AvaCu. I. p. 283.
Bambhaṇāgāma (Brahmaṇagrama)
1. AvaCu. I. p. 283.
1. AvaN. 323, AvaM. p. 227. 2. UttN. p. 379.
Bambladatta
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Bambhathala (Brahmasthala ) A place where the sixth Titthamkara Paumappabha broke his first fast.1 Cakkavaṭṭi Bambhadatta(1) had visited this place. It is identified with Hastinapur.3
3. LAI. p. 271.
See Bambhaṇagāma.1
1. Bambhadatta (Brahmadatta) Twelfth Cakkavaṭṭi of the current descending cycle.' He reigned prior to Pasa(1), the twenty-third Titthamkara and posterior to Ariṭṭhanemi, the twenty second Titthamkara. He was son of king Bambha(1) and his queen Culaņi(2) of Kampillapura, the capital of Pancala. His height was seven dhanusas. He had many wives of which the chief wives were: Hariesā, Godatta, Kaṇerudattā, Kaṇerupaigā, Kumjaraseṇā, Kanerusena, Isivuḍdhi and Kurumai(1).5 Monk Citta(1) who was the brother of Bambhadatta in his previous birth, came to Kampillapura, reminded him of their former births and advised him to give up: sensual enjoyment and take to asceticism. Bambhadatta did not accept his advice. After enjoying seven hundred years life he left this world and took birth as an infernal being in the seventh hell.6
1. AvaN. 375, Tir. 560, 1141, Sth. 236, 315, Sam. 158, UttN. and UttS. pp. 379-380, Vis. 1763, NisCu. II. p. 21, Mar. 376.
2. AvaN. 419, AvaCu. I. p. 215, Vis. 1771. 3. UttCu. p. 214, Utt. 13.1, UttN. and UttS. p. 377, Jiv. 89, Sam. 158 AvaN. 398-400.
4. Sth. 563, AvaN. 393.
5. UttN. and UttS. p. 379. According to Sam. 158, Kurumai(1) was his principal
queen.
6. Utt. Ch. 13, NisCu. III. p.5 8, AcaCu. pp. 19, 74, 121, 197, 381, AvaCu. I pp. 366, 446, II. pp. 79, 307, DasCu. pp. 105, 328, Jiv. 89, Sth. 112, 563, Vis. 1776.
2. Bambhadatta
An inhabitant of Ayojjha1 who was the first to offer alms to Ajiya, the second Titthamkara.2
1. AvaN. 323.
2. Sam. 157, AvaN. 327.