Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India

Author(s): Pranabananda Jash
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi

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Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India
Dharmācārya
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Place
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a. Jamali (Mahāvira's Baburaya
Savatthi 543 BC son-in-law) (Bahurata)
(Śrāvasti) b. Tissagutta Jivapaesiya
Uşabhapura 541 BC (Tișyagupta) (Jivapradesaka) or Rayagaha c. Aşādha Avvattaga
Syetavi 313 BC (Avyaktaka)
(Svetambi) d. Assamitta Samuccheiya
Mithila
307 BC (Aśvamitra) (Samucchedika) c. Ganga Dokiāriya
Ullakatira 299 BC (Dvaikriya) f. Saduluya, Rohagutta, Terasiya Antaranji AD 17
(Rohagupta)(Trirasika) g. Gotthamahilla Abaddhiya
Daśapura AD 57 (Gostamahilla) (Abaddhiku)
life io be led by the Jaina monks is sthāvira-kalpa), though he was dissuaded by Acārya Aryakrsna from doing so. He began to go about stark naked. His sister Uttarā once came to him, and she, too, undressed herself. A gaạika on seeing her naked, covered her body with a piece of cloth, though Uttarā did not like it. Thereupon Uttarā informed Sivabhūti about this. He persuaded her not to give up the cloth; for, he said that firstly it was given by a deity and secondly a naked woman presented a very ugly and indecent sight. In course of time Šivabhūti gave dikşā to Kodiņņa (Sk. Kaundinya) and Kottavira and this resulted in the establishment of a sect known as Digambara. But the Digambaras seem to be ignorant of the earlier schisms. According to them under Bhadravāhu, an inhabitant of northern Bengal, rose the sect of Ardhaphalakas, 104 which in AD 80 developed into the Svetāmbara sect.105 Jacobi thinks that the separation of the sections of the Jaina organisation took place gradually, an individual development going on in both groups living at a great distance from one another, and that they became aware of their mutual difference about the end of the first century AD. But the difference is small in articles of faith.196 But there are some scholars who advocate that even during the life-time of Mahāyira, the Jaina community was divided into two groups, one propounding and imitating the rigid life led by Mahāvīra who remained completely