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 BHAGAWATI SŪTRA
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Ancient Pătali putra has been identified with Kumra har in the neighbourhood of Patna in Bihar. Rājagrha (Rājgīr)!
Rayagiha (Rājayrha) was the celebrated capital city of Magadha ruled over by Śreņika-Bimbisāra. It is also mentioned in other Jaina texts, Buddhists and Brāhmaṇical' works and Chinese Records.
It was known as Giribbaja in the Buddhist records, for it was surrounded by five bills, viz. Pandava, Gijjhakūța, Vebhāra, Isiyili und Vepulla ; and according to the Mahāl hārata-Vaibhāra, (the ground rock), Varaha, Vršabha Ķsigiri and Caityaka.'
It is here at the Gunakilaka Caitya, situated in the northeastern quarter of Rajayrha, Lord Mahāvīra appeared more than sixty times and delivered most of his sermons on different topics in the assembly of his followers. It was a famous centre of Jainism and Buddhism and it was also sanctified by the sacred visits of Lord Pārsvanātha and Lord Buddha® respectively. It was the birth place of the twentieth Tirthankara. According to the Bhs, the location of the hot spring in the Veb hāra hill, Rayagihu can safely be identified with the present Rājgīr. Sayaduvāra (Satadvāra)
Sayaduvāra was a town in the Pundra Jana pada at the foot of the Vindhyagiri where Gośāla Maókhaliputra was said to have been born in one of his births in the royal family of Sumati and Bhadrã and was known as Mahāpadma. It is not yet identified.
1 Bhs, 1, 1, 4; etc.
Nāyādhammakahāo, II, 10, p. 230; Pannavana, 1, 37 ; etc. 9 Vimānuvattha (Commi) p. 87; Vinaya Pitaka, Vol. IV,
pp. 116-117. 4 Mahābhārata, III, 84. 104 ; see Luder's list No. 1345. 6 Watters on Yuan Chwang II, p. 148. . Mahāvngga, (S. B. F. XII-150); D. P. P. N.II, 721.
Commentary on the Sutta Nipāta, II, p. 382. ? Mahabharata II, 21.2. & Nayādhammakhão, II, 10. p. 230; Nirayāvaliya, 4. • Vinaya Pitaka, IV, p. 267 ; II, 36 ff. ; Digha, II, pp. 76-81, etc. 10 Avasyaka Niryukti, 325, 383.
11 Bh8, 2, 5, 113. 11 Ib, 15, 1, 559; see Thānānga Sutta, 9, 663 ; Antagada,
5, p. 26.
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