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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Siddhatthagāma (Siddhārthagrāma)'
Siddhatthagāma was a small town where Lord Mahāvīra appeared at Kūrmagrāma, being accompanied by Gośāla Mańkhaliputra during the days of his austerity. Siddhatthagāma may correspond to Siddhārthagrāma in the Bīrbhūm district of West Bengal'. Susamārapura
Susamārapura also appears in other Jaina texts and Buddhist worksø as a city.
It is here in the Asoka garden Lord Mahāvīra passed the eleventh year of his asceticism in the state of Chadmastha (state having finite knowledge) by practising the austerity of lekarātrikan mahāpratinā-vratar' (taking only the eighth meal). According to the Buddhist records Susamārapura.was the capital of the Bhaggas (Bhargas). It is identified with modern Cunār in the Mirzāpura district in Uttara Pradesh.6
Tāmalitti (Tämralipti=Tāmralipta=Tamaluk?
Tāmalitti is also mentioned in other Jaina texts, Buddhist and Brāhmaṇical works and foreign accounts" as an important city and emporium with different variations of its name, such as, Tāmalipta, Dāmulipta, Tāmalipti, Tamālinī (by Hemachandra), Tamalites (by Ptolemy), To-mo-liti (by Fa-Hien), Tan-mo-li-ti (by Huien Tsang), etc.
According to the Prajñāpanā Sūtrala Tāmalitti, was the capital city of Vanga in the list of the Aryans of the first order.
Bhs, 15, 1, 542.
? History of Bengal Vol. 1, p. 22. 3 BhS, 3, 2, 144.
4 Avaśyaka-Curni, il, p. 199 ff. Majjhima Nikaya, 1, 332-8; Vide, H. G. A. I. P. 129. • Ghosa : Early History of Kausambi, p. 32; Majjhima Ni.
p. 6ln. by Rahul Sätökstyāyan; Vide, Life in Ancient India, p. 339f. f.11. 303. Bh8, 3, 1, 134.
& Pannavanā Sutta, 1, 37. p. 55 a. 9 Kathasarit-Sāgara, Ch. 14 ; Mahavamsa, XI, 38; XIX, 6. 10 Mahābhārata, Bhismaparva, Ch. 9; Sablāparva, Ch. 29.
1094 1100, Raghuvamsa, IV, 38. 11 Ptolemy, VII, 1, 76; Beal : Buddhist Records of the Western
world II, 200. 13 Pannavanā Sutta, 1, 37. p. 55a.