Sambodhi 2012 Vol 35

Author(s): J B Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Bansidhar Bhatt
SAMBODHI
devotee is a beast (vrsabha) prays to the Lord of Beasts - Pasupati or Siva for his deliverance; also Siva is associatd with bull(vrsabha)!] The sūtra in its disturbed form appears also in a Jaina text, Anuyoga (ca. 6th cent. CE) as follows :
se kim tam kuppāvayaniyam bhāvāvassayam ? je ime (caraga - cīriya....... jāva) pāsamdatthā “ijjamjali-homa-jappa-undurukka-namokkāramäiyāim” bhāvāvassayam karenti se tam kuppavayaniyam (sūtra 27). It means : "What is bad - sectarian (kuprāvacanika) spiritual (bhāva) type of Āvaśyaka ? It is that in which the wanderers etc. who are heretics observe their Āvaśyaka (necessary formulae) with worship, respect, offerings, muttering prayers (jāpya : jappa; v. l. java) with noise of a bull like undurukka, (v.l. undurukkha, umdurukka) and with respect etc.” The term undurukka means, according to Anuyoga Cūrņi (p. 74), vasabha-dhekkiyāim; according to Haribhadra (p. 75) undurukkam desī-vacanam, vrsabha-garjita-karanādyartha iti; also according to Hemacandra (p. 76); ... vrşabhādi-sabda-karanam = .... devatādi-purato vrşabha-garjitādi-karanam; i.e. the sound uttered by a bull, moo ! In Anuyoga. 22 there is a description of logottariya davv’āvassaya, dravya type of Āvaśyaka of the world beyond. Here the monks are described as (pandara-pada-pāuraā), monks with their bodies besmeared with white ashes and covered with a cloth. They are ņirankusā - checkless and (Jiņānam aņāņāe sacchandam vihariūņam...) without respecting the Jina's precepts, they wander at free will, but both times (morning and evening) they attend to the Āvaśyakas ! Such a statement suggests, that some Saiva monks might be respecting Jaina Avaśyakas or believing in Jainism."
(86) Moreover, the kāndarpiki bhāvanā ($2.13) is found sometimes in the characteristics of the Ājīvakas; for instance, in Āv. Nir. 479-480 Gosāla was wandering with Mahāvīra(=Mv) soon after Mv. accepted the ascetic life. At two places Gosāla was not behaving properly with women, therefore, he was beaten by them. At the time of a rain-retreat in Nangalā, Gosāla in the kāndarpiki bhāvanā made his eyes drawn back in the corner and frightened the persons clapping with hands and thighs. He was then beaten by the parents of one person. Similar instance is found also in AvNir 508.12 There is also a mention of an idol of the god Skanda in śrävasti in Āv. Nir. 220. The Rudra and the god Skanda are the same (Atharvasira Up.2.3).