Shraman Bhagvana Mahavira Part 4

Author(s): Ratnaprabhvijay, D P Thaker
Publisher: Parimal Publication

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Vada ] Nihnavavada
:13: respond to it. In spite of that, Jamāli left the company of) Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra and went out for Vihāra alone with his five hundred sthaviras. Wandering from place to place Jamāli Muni at last, came to the city of Śrāvasti, where in the garden of Tainduka, he stayed in a Caitya named Kosthaka.
There, on account of dry and stale food that he was taking, Jamāli Acārya, was laid down with high fever. He, being unable to sit, asked his followers to prepare a bed for him immediately.
The bed was being prepared by the monks. In the mean while, due to excessive heat of fever, Jamāli Ācārya, repeatedly questioned the monks “Is the bed prepared or not?” The monks, who had already prepared half the bed, and were busy preparing the whole of it, replied “ Yes, it is prepared.”
But Jamāli, whose mind was not stealy, on account of exoessive pain, was enraged at the sight of the half-spreal bed that was being spread fully. At that very moment, he denied the truth of the theory of “ Kriyamāņam kritama which was already preached by great Tírthankaras and asserted that Kriyamāna or that which is being produced is not krita or actually produced.
Some of the old sthaviras tried to persuade him not to do so, but it was of no avail. Consequently, some of them, went back to Sramaņa Bhagavān Mahāvīra, while others stuck to Jamāli's theory and stayed with him. Sudarsanā, too, stayed with him, in the house of the potter Dhanka who also happened to be a Srāvaka. She being attached to Jamāli, followed Jamali's theory, and further attempted to persuade Dhanka to follow Jamāli. But Dhanka was shrewd enough to know that Sudarśanā was under the influence of mithyatva of vanity like Jamāli. So, he cleverly escaped by saying, “ We cannot compre hend such things." २ प्रश्नः-से गूणं भंते ! चलमाणे चलिए ? उदीरिजमाणे उदीरिए ? वेइजमाणे
वेदए ? पहीजमाणे पहीणे! छिजमाणे छिन्ने ? भिजमाणे भिन्ने ?
डझमाणे दड्ढे ? मिजमाणे मडे ? निजरिजमाणे निजिण्णे? उत्तरः-हंता, गोयमा! चलमाणे चलिए, जाव निजरिजमाणे निजिण्णे। (भगवतीसूत्र (पञ्चम अन] प्रथम खण्डं प्रथम शतक, प्रथमोहेशक.)