Tirthankaras of the Future

Author(s): Nalini Balbir
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Tirthamkaras of the Future 67 81. Before Sambhavajina's last birth : dimsateh sthanakanam ca sthanakair aparair api sa puposa nijam karma Tirthaksn-nama-namakam; trsl. vol. II, p. 232; also p. 25; vol. III, p. 2; 65 passim; see below 3. for Buddhist counterparts. 82. sam. 1502 = 1445 A. D; ed. DLJP 60, 1923; cf. W. Schubring, Die Lehre der J ainas, Berlin, Leipzig, 1935: 196; C. B. Tripathi, Catalogue of the Jaina Manuscripts at Strasbourg, Leiden, 1975 (Indologia Berolinensis 4), Serial No. 169-170; Jaina Sahitya ka Bshad Itihasa, vol. VI, p. 307. 83. Thus for cxample : tatas cyuto Videhesu bhavi Tirthamkaro nrpah (v. 54, p. 10b); or : tatas cyuto Videhesu sa bhavi Tirtha-nayakah namato Jagadanandi, jagad-anandi-rupa-bhst. (p. 15b.). E. g. in Parvatithi vigere na caityavandanadi no samgraha, Bhavnagar, sam. 1981, p. 26, 27, 157, 246, 345. Lists of the 20 causes are identical with the older ones (see fn. 78), except for No. 15 : strangely enough Pk, cciaa (Sa. tyaga) or dana is optionally replaced by "Goyama" explained as the 28 labdhis. Sometimes numbers are substituted to words, i. e. 24 instead of arahanta (No. 1), 5 instead of nana, etc. P. 346, Srenika, Satyaki, Sulasa, Revati are said to have become famous lay people through their observance of the sthanakas. 84 bis. A good survey of the various Buddhist traditions about Maitreya is to be read in E. Abegg, Der Buddha Maitreya, Mitteilungen der Schweizer ischen Gesellschaft der Freunde Ostasiatischer Kultur, VII, 1985, p. 7-37. 85. Ed. by Minayeff, JPTS, 1886, p. 33-53; cf. T. W. Rhys Davids, Anagata vamsa in Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, vol. I, p. 414; E. Leumann, Maitreya-samiti, das Zukunft Ideal der Buddhisten, Strassburg, 1919. II. Teil : Indischer Teil. - 86. The Birth-Stories of the Ten Bodhisattas and the Dasabodhisattuppattikatha. Ed. trsl. H. Saddhatissa, London, 1975 (Sacred Books of the Buddhists 29); esp. intr. p. 18-26. 87. Cf. R. Gombrich, The Significance of Former Buddhas in the Fherdvadin Tra. dition in Buddhist Studies in honour of Walpola Rahula, London, 1980, p. 6272; I. B. Horner, Some notes on the Buddhavamsa Commentary (Madhuratthavilasini), ibid., p. 73-84; ID, Intr. to The Clarifier of the Sweet Meaning (Madhuratthavilasini), trsl. London, 1978 (Sacred Books of the Buddhists 33). 88. 89. Ed. I. B. Horner, 1946, Pali Text Society 55; repr. 1978. Ibid., 104, 16-17 : "Buddha-kare dhamme' ti buddhatta-kare dhamme, budhattakara nama dhamma dana-paramitadayo dasa-dhamma. Cf. the Kalki-Purana, thoroughly analysed by E. Abegg, Der Messiasglaube in Indien und Iran, Berlin, Leipzig, 1928, p. 71-138; passim. 90.