Sramana 2016 04

Author(s): Shreeprakash Pandey, Rahulkumar Singh, Omprakash Singh
Publisher: Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi

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46 : 3401, adf 67, 3th 2, 37 -ga, 2016 4. Prof. Kashi Prasad Jayaswal, 546 B.C.. He has mentioned only the two traditions in his article “Identification of Kalki”. He has not Lascertained the date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāņa. But at some other places he has considered 546 B.C. to be the date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāṇa, adding 18 years between Vikarma's birth and his accession to the throne (470+18), he fixes the date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāṇa, as 488 years before Vikrama.
5. S.V. Venkateshwara, 437 B.C. His assumption is based on the Ananda Vikram Era. This Era came into vogue 90 years after the Vikrama Era. 6. Pandit Jugal Kishor Mukhtar, 528 B.C. On the basis of various arguments, he has confirmed the traditional theory. 7. Muni Sri Kalyana Vijaya, 528 B.C. While confirming the traditional theory, he has tried to remove the inconsistencies of the theory. 8. Prof. P.H.L. Eggermont., 252 B.C. The basis of his argument is equating the incident of Sarghabheda of Tișyagupta in the Jaina tradition, which took place during the life time of Mahāvīra in 16th year of his emancipation. With the incident of Saṁghabheda and the act of drying up of the Bodhi tree by Tişyarakṣita in the Buddha Samgha, which took place during the reign of Asoka. 9. V.A. Smith, 527 B.C., He has followed the generally accepted theory. 10. Prof. K. R. Norman, About 400 B.C.. Considering Bhadrabāhu to be Candragupta's contemporary, he fixed the period of 5 earlier Ācāryas as 75 years, at an average of 15 years each, and thus fixed the date of Mahāvīra's Nirvāṇa as 320+75 = 395 B.C. In order to determine the date of the Nirvāṇa of Mahāvīra, along with the Jaina literary sources we must take into account the legendary and epigraphical evidences also. We would follow the comparative method to decide which of the above-mentioned assumptions is authentic, and will give priority to the epigraphical evidences, as for as possible.