Book Title: Comparative and Critical Study of Mantrashastra
Author(s): Mohanlal Bhagwandas Jhaveri, K V Abhayankar
Publisher: Sarabhai Manilal Nawab
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INTRODUCTION
If there be any doubt still lingering in the minds of the readers as to Sadhana or practice of Vidyas and Mantras by Jain Sadhus it should be thoroughly dispelled by vv. 251-252, Vyavahārasūtra Bhāṣya VI, which say: 'Acharyas repeat Vidyas on every 'Parva' i. e. the middle day of the month or the fortnight. The middle day of the fortnight i. e. the eighth day is considered 'Parva,' so also the middle day of the month, i. e. the fourteenth day of the dark half (of the month); other 'Parvas' being the days of the eclipse of the sun and the moon."
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Siddhaputras and Siddhaputrīs are referred to at various places as also Sārūpikas in Vyavahārasūtra-Bhāṣya, (See Udd. IV v. 134 ff; Udd. V v. 74 Udd. VII vv. 13, 17; Udd. VIII v. 288). Nimitta, Vidya, Mantra, Curņa and Yoga are referred to in v. 3 Udd. VII. V. 187 Udd. VII uses as an illustration the fact that whatever the universal monarch of Vidya utters becomes Vidya, but that it is accomplished at the proper time and place; so the utterances of Jina which are possessed of eight qualities should be recited with due regard to time and place and not indiscriminately at all times and at all places. V. 201 Udd. VIII refers to 'Abhiyoga' superior force i. e. charming or controlling. Sūtra 8, Udd. X, p. 97 and the Bhāṣya thereon respectively refer to and explain 'Ganasobhi' i. e. one who adorns the fold. It says: 'A dialectician as mentioned in the 1st Uddeśa, an exponent of the religion through appropriate stories, a diviner and one possessing miraculous powers through Vidya adorn the fold.'
NISITHA SUTRA
Nisitha Sutra XIII Uddesa is full of references to Kautuka
* विज्जाणं परिवाडी पव्वे पव्वे य देंति आयरिया |
मास मासियाणं पव्वं पुण होड़ मज्झं तु ॥ २५१॥ पक्खस्स अठमी खलु मासस्स य पक्खिअं मुणेयव्वं । अपि होइ पव्वं उवरागो चंदसूराणं ॥ २५२ ॥
x जहा विज्जा नरिदम्स जं किंचिदपि भासियं । विज्जा भवति सा चेह देसे काले च सिज्झइ ||१८७||
