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TULSI-PRAJNA
Veyāla
VHP 317,319; Vedāli, Veyali in VHM 81 Saṁkuya
VHP 164; Samkugã in VHM 27,154,156 Sihamuhi
VHP 208,212,213 Selakarani
VHM 104 Notes and References : 1. Amarakosa, svarga varga. I, 11,
Vidyādharo'psaro yakşa rakṣo gandharva kinnarāḥ / piśāco guhyakaḥ siddho bhūto’mi devyaonayaḥ || see also Trikāndasesa ed. C.A. Seelakhandha Maha Thera, Bombay 1916, p. 12 : Vidyadharah Kamarūpi Khecarāḥ sthirayau
vanāh 2. Ludwig Alsdorf, "Zur Geschichte der Jaina-Kosmographie and
Mythologie' in: Kleine Schriften, wiesbaden 1974, p. 71-101 has discussed the nature and organisation of the Vidyadhara extensi
vely but did not go into the question of their Vidyās. 3. Vasudevahimdi Prathama Khanda, ed. Caturvijaya Muni and
Punyavijaya Mudi, Bhavnagar 1933, reprint: Gandhinagar 1989,
Henceforth VHP. 4. Vasudevahimadı. Madhyama Khanda, part I, ed. H.C Bhayani
and R.M. Shah, Ahmedabad, 1987, Henceforth VIAM. 5. Gita, X, 32
adhyātmavidyā vidyanain vadah pravadatam aham 6. Kathopanişad, II.1.2 7. Mundakopanişad, 1.4,5 8. Svetāśvataropauişad, V. 1 9, VHP. p. 164,
...... tato tena ganddharva-pannagâņam adatālisaṁ sahassani
dinnāni. 10. Ibid, p. 164,
gaganagamanajoggão vijjão 11. VHP. pp. 92-94, 96-100, 108-124, 164,240,308,329,330; VHM, pp.
50,92,93,97. 12. VHP, p. 92 13. Ibid, p. 95 14. Ibid. 15. Ibid, p. 108 16. Ibid, p. 124,
...... pannaitiṁ ginnhi jāhijo vijjahiko so rajjasami 17. VHM, p. 92 18. Ibid. 19. VHP, p. 330. It reads ābhogant; VHM, p. 15,104 20. VHM, p. 40.
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