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Sainbala
Sambala (Sambala) A Nāgakumāra god.? See Kambala for further information.
1. AvaH. pp. 197-8, AvaM. pp. 274-5, KalpV. p. 163. Sambukka (Sambūka) One of the sixteen colonies of Vijjābaras in Vijjābarasedhi. The people of this colony wielded a lore of the same name.1
1. AvaM. p. 215.
2. Sambukka A village situated in the country of Avemti. Brahmin Sajjasiva belonged to this place.
1. Mahan. p. 209. 1 Sambhava Third Titthamkara of the current descending cycle in the Bharaha(2) region. Aggisepa was his contemporary tirtharkara in the Eravaya(1) region. He was son of king Jitāri(2) and queen Seņā(2) of Sāvatthi? His height was four hundred dhanușas. His complexion was of the hue of heated gold. At the age of fifty-nine lakh pūrva and four püryānga years he took to asceticism along with one thousand men. He used Siddhattha(2) palanquin on that occassion. He took his first pāranā at the house of Surimdadatta(1). After the lapse of fourteen years he obtained omniscience.10 The sacred tree of sāla is associated with him.11 He lived a full life of sixty lakh Pūrva years and attained liberation on mount Sammeya accompanied by one thousand monks.12 He had under him a community of two lakh monks, with Cāru at their head and three lakh and thirty-six thousand nuns with Sāmā(2) at their head.13. The monks were divided into one hundred and two groups and each group was in charge of a group-head.14 The birth of Sambhava took place thirty lakh crore sāgaropama years after that of Titthayara Ajiya.15 Sambhava was Vimala väbaņa(5) in his previous birth.16 1. Sam. 157. Nan. v. 18, Ava. p. 4,1 10. AvaN. 254, 302, Sam. 157, AvaM. Vis. 1758, AvaH. p. 450, AvaN.
p. 206. 1088.
11. Sam. 157, Tir. 405. 2. Tir. 316.
12. AvaN. 303, 307, 311, Aval. pp. 3. Sam. 157, Avan. 385 ff., AvaM.
208-214, Kalp. 202. pp 237 ff., Tir. 466.
13. Sam. 157, AvaN. 256, 260, Avam. 4. Sam. 106, AvaN. 378, Tir. 361.
pp. 208 ff. Tir. 457, 444. 5. AvaN. 376, Tir. 336.
14. AvaN. 266, Tir (444) mentions 95 6. Sam. 59.
Ganadharas. 7. AvaN. 278.
15. AvaBh. 2 (p. 81). 8. Sam. 157, AvaN. 225, 231, Tir 391. 16. Sam. 157.
9. Sam. 157, AvaN. 323, 327, 2 Sambhava A contemporary king of Vimala(D)',
1. Tir. 476,
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