Book Title: Sramana 2016 04
Author(s): Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi
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44 : 97401, auf 67, 312 2, 3 -1, 2016 There have been differences of opinion from the very beginning on the date of Nirvāṇaof Mahāvīra. Although, it has been clearly stated in Tiloyapaņņatti that 605 years and 5 months after the Nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra, Saka became the king. There are four different statements found in this book, which are as follows:
I. 461 years after Vīra Jinendra attained salvation, Śaka became the king.
II. 9785 years after Vīra Bhagavāna attained salvation, Saka became the king.
III. 14793 years after Vīra Bhagavāna attained salvation, Śaka became the king.
IV. 605 years and 5 months after Vīra Jina attained salvation, Śaka became the king.
Besides this, in Dhavalā,' a commentary on Satkhaņdāgama, there are three different statements as to after how many years of the Nirvāņa of Mahāvīra, Saka (śālivāhana Saka) became the king:
I. 605 years and 5 months after Vīra Nirvāņa. II. 14793 years after Vīra Nirvāņa.
III. 7995 years and 5 months after Vira Nirvāņa. In Śvetāmbara tradition there are two clear opinions as to how much time after the Nirvāṇa of Lord Mahāvīra Devardhi's last assembly on Agama was held. According to the first opinion, it was composed 980 years after the. Vīra Nirvāṇa, whereas according to the second it was composed 993 years after the event. It is significant to note that in the Svetāmbara tradition, there are two opinions regarding the date of Candragupta Maurya's accession to the throne. According to the first, he ascended the throne in the year 215 of Vīra Nirvāņa. However, in Titthogālī Paiņnayaonly this much has been mentioned that (after Vīra Nirvāņa) the region of the Mauryas started 60 years after the Pālakas and 155 years after the Nandas, whereas according to the second opinion of Hemacandra,'he ascended
