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Embryo-transfer episode could well be one of such additions by later Acharyas. This appears to be more so because the author of the Kalpa Sutra Acharya Bhadrabahu was a born Brahmin. He was the 8th successor to Lord Mahavir. Brahmins in those times were ardent followers of Jins ( ). Admittedly the Agamic literature was for the first time reduced to writing in 453 AD. As discovered by scholars, the second and third part of the Kalpa Sutra namely Sthaviravali (f) and Sadhu Samachari (4) contain passages definitely written by later Acharyas.
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Some historians go so far as to suggest that Jamali (HI) was the son of Nandivardhan (नन्दिवर्धन), Trishala's (त्रिशला) own son and elder brother of Lord Mahavir. According to them Mahavir's daughter Priyadarshana (f) was given in marriage to Nandivardhan's
son Jamali. If that be so, Mahavir could not have been the son of Trisala. He might have been adopted after having born to Devananda, the Brahmin lady.
Dr. Hermann Jacobi, the learned Western authority and erudite commentator on ancient Jain Agamic Literature had visualised the possibility of Devananda being the second wife of Siddhartha. In his introduction to the Jain Sutra (The Sacred Books of the East 1884 Ed. Vol. 22) Dr. Jacobi interprets the episode as follows:
I assume that Siddhartha had two wives, the Brahmini Devananda, the real mother of Mahavira and the Khsatriyani Trishala. Because the name of the alleged husband of the former viz., Rishabhdatha can not be very old because its Prakrit form would in that case probably be Usabhadinna in stead of 'Usabhdatta'. Besides, the name is such as could only be given to a Jain not to a Brahmin. I therefore have no doubt that 'Rishabhdatha' has been invented by the Jains in order to provide Devananda with another husband. Siddhartha was connected with persons of high rank and great influence through his marriage with Trisala. It was therefore probably thought more profitable to give out that Mahavira was the son and not merely the step son of Trisala so that he could be entitled to the patronage of her relations. This story could all the more easily have gained credence as Mahavira's parents had died many years before he
