Book Title: Sacred Literature of Jains
Author(s): Ganeshchandra Lalwani, Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Jain Bhawan

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________________ SACRED LITERATURE OF THE JAINS 139 difference is, however, noticeable :-Here757 the increase is by hundreds after the millennium, [412] after 100,000 years by 84's (cairāsitiväsasayasahassaiṁ se ege puvvarge), and from this point on by 8,400,000 (caürasītipuvvaṁgasaya... sahassāim se ege puvve); in anga 3, however, we find no more exact statement in reference to the manner of the progression 768 (vāsakoại 'ti vä, puvvamgă ti vä, puvvá ti vä). As the result of the above we may observe one divergence as regards up. 5, where in book VI. (see Ind. Stud. 10, 282), the word puvva occurred in the signification of a million years, and the increase from that point on (without any special mention of the names in question) simply passing by paliovama and sāgarovama, up to osappini, merely by 10's. . The enumeration of the 72 kalās in a legend of Usabha is not mentioned in detail ; its beginning and end alone being mentioned. The women of the foreign peoples known to us from the Bhagavatisee p. 302-are enumerated as servants of king Bharaha :-Tate nan tassa Bharahassa ranno bahuo khuyya759 Cilāti-vämani-vadabhio-BabbariVaü siyão Joņiya-Palhaviyão, Isiniya-Thăruņiyā (Tharukiņiā, Cărubhaniya) Lasiya Laüsiya Damili Sihali taha Āravi Pulimdi ya Pakvani Vahali Marudi [413] (Mura", Muro') Savario Pärasio ya appigatiyāo cardanakalasahatthayayão.... According to the commentary, the first four vakşaskāras treat of the following subjects - The first, of the Bharatakşetra-svarūpath; the second, of its special relations during the 14 temporal divisions, Bharatakşetrasvarūpavarnanaprastāvanāgatavasarpiny-utsarpinidvayarūpa-kalacakravarnano nama; the third, of the legends concerning king Bharata, Bharatakşetrapravrttinimittävirbhāva Bharatacakricaritray.nāmd; the fourth, of the remaining 6 vāsas, or 6 vāsaharas,760 kşudra Himavadadi náma : 1 naprastaw during the .. 757 So also in the Anuyogadvārasutra, see Bhag. 1.427. See Ind. Stud. 13,168. Ind. Streifen, 3,3, pañcadandachattrapr. p. 17 in reference to the customary use of the number 84. 758 According to the scholiast, we must assume that the relations of modality in anga 3 are identical with those here -purvāni purvāmgāny eva caturasitivarşalaksaguni tani ; purvāni catur asitilaksagunitāni truţitāmgāni bhavanti...... 759 kubjah kubjika vakrajanghāh, Cilatyah cilātadesot pannäh, vămanikā atyait ahrasy ornatahrdayakosthä vä, vadabhikā madahakosthä vadha (vakradhah ?) käyä vā: bakuSadeśajah; isinikah thārukinikah: lasakadeśajah, lakušadešajāh; tatra cilatyadayo 'stādaśa tattaddesodbhavat vena fattannāmikā jneyah, kubjadayas tu tisro visesana bhütäh; see Leumann in the glossary to the Aup. **860 Then follows:2. The mountain (vasaharapavväe) culla Himavařte, 3. in Hemavae vase, 4. mount maha-Himavañte, 5. in Harivase väse, 6. mount Nisaha, 7. in

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