Some Aspects of Jainism in Eastern India

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

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Twenty-Four Tirthankaras and Their Activities and Teachings
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'H. Jacobi, Studies in Jainism, part I, pp. 8-9.
* It is the Mount Maleus of the Greeks (McCri ndle, Megasthenes and Arrian, pp, 63, 139); B.C. Law, HGAI, p. 226.
'Hemacancra's Abhidhānacintamani, ch. I, VV. 26-28. 10 Kalpa-sūtra, 147, 168, 182 & 227.
"The seven Kulakäras are --Vimalavähana, Cakşusmat, Yaśasvin, Abhicandra Prasenajit, Marudeva, Nābhi-H.R. Kapadia, op. cit., pp. 29-30.
1 2 Ibid., fns. 3-4. 13 Āvaśyakaniryukti, 191, 383, 398. 14 Kalpa-sutra, SBE, XXII, pp. 281-85.
15 Rgveda, X.102.6--The Satapatha Brāhmana (13.5.4.15) and the Samkhya Srauta sutra (16.9.8.20) speak of a king named Rşabha who is said to have performed Aívamedha sacrifices. Another name of Rşabha being the son of Viśvāmitra occurs in the Aitareya Brahmana, 7.17.
18 Visnu, 2.1, p 163 (ed. Wilson); Kurma, ch. 41; Agni. ch. 10; Markandeya, ch. 50; Bhagavata, V.3 6.
"? A vas yakaniryukti, 336-37. ** Bhāgavata Purāna, V.5,30. 19Ibid., V.6.7. 20 Rāmāyaṇa, VII.III.10. 21 Mbh., V1.9.7. ?? Ibid., chs. 125ff; also XII-128-24. 23Ibid., II1.85.10-11. 34 Bhāgavata Purăņa, V. 3-6. 26 Ibid., 11.7.10.
28R.G. Bhandarkar, VSMS, p. 42; P. Jash, History and Evolution of Vaisnavism in Eastern India, p 98.
27 Bhagavata Purāna, V.3.18-20; P. Jash, op. cit., pp. 7ff. 28K.P. Jain, Jains Antiquary, I, no. 2, 1935, p. 19. "IHQ, VIII, Supplement, pp. 18-32. 30Chanda, Modern Review, 1932 (August), pp. 158-60.
3'Zimmer, op. cit., p. (0. It may be noted further that Mrs. N.R. Guseva (Jainism, Bombay, 1917, pp. 38ff) thinks that the great antiquity of this sect is also known by studying from the anthropological perspective. “An ethnic group called Thakur lives in western Nepal, whose sect is called Pen-po. Members of this sect believe in God, whom they call 'leading to the heaven' (towards the heaven), compare the designation; Tirtl:arikara - leading or carrying the being across the ocean or the 'joined conqueror' (compare jcena the conqueror). They portray this god fully naked, as the Jainas their tirthaikaras".
a>IA, IX. p. 163.
33AN, III.373; we may note in this connection that the Majjhima-nikaya (Isigili sutta) refers to Arittha as one of the twenty-four Pratyekabuddhas who inhabited on the Sigiri mountain. Again, in the Dīgha-nikaya (Dialogues of the Buddha, III, p. 60) we find the name of Drdhanemi as a Cakkavatri. Elsewhere the same Nikāya (Dialogues of the Buddha, III, p. 291) speaks of the king Aritthanemi who is called a Yakkha.
"N.N. Vasu, Introduction 10 Harivamśa-Purāņa, p. 6.