Studies in the Bhagavati Sutra

Author(s): J C Sikdar
Publisher: Research Institute of Prakrit Jainology & Ahimsa Mujjaffarpur

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STUDIES IN THE BAHGAWATI SUTRA
delivered in Campa which was under the rule of king Kūnika, the son of Bimbhisāra (Bimbisāra), The second part deals with the successive rebirths and conditions of deliverance. In the central part there is the mention of heterodox sects, such as, Parivrajakas (Parivvayaga), Kanha-Parivvayaga, etc. and eight "Tattha representatives of each class from the Brahmana caste. Khalu ime aṭṭha-mahaṇa-parivvāyagā bhavamti Karakanti ya, ammaḍa, etc."
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It refers to the female attendants belonging to different tribes, such as, Cilaiya (Kiratas.), etc. and alludes to eighteen unnamed deśībhāṣā (local dialects), other sects, such as Annautthiya (Anyatirthikas), terasiya (Trairasikas), seven schismsBahuraga, Jivapadesiya, (Jiva-pradesika), Dokiriya etc.
The Rayapaseniya (Rajaprašny 1) contains questions of the king, Paesi and equally furnishes some reply on the subject of re-incarnation of soul and its relation with the body. This Upanga also gives an account of the former birth of Suriabha Pãesī and his future birth as Dadhapa inna and it also refers to the foreign peoples.
1 Rayapaseniya. 3 Jiva. pratipattis.
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The Jivabhigama consisting of ten sections' enumerates and classifies the diverse species of animated beings, e. g. divviha upto dasavviha and at last gives a description of the universe by furnishing some astronomical data, such as, the number of the suns, moons, stars, etc. in each of the dvipas (islandcontinents).
The Pannavana Suya having thirtysix chapters (or sections) contains an ethnographic sketch according to which men are divided into two categories, viz. Arya (noble) and Mleccha i.e. barbarians and it enumerates twenty-five and a half Aryan countries." Besides, this Upanga treats of different forms, conditions of life, etc. of beings (Jivas). Lastly it mentions eighteen kinds of script, viz. Bambhi upto Polimdi.
Ib., 3rd Pratipatti.
Pannavana. V. 4, 7, 36 sayas. Pannavana ti¦ Samugghae. 5 Ib., 1, 1 (36-37). 6 Ib., 1, 37, 55a.