102
After Arhad Bali Acharya , Magh Nandi was the leader amongst the Sadhus who had knowledge the Sruta in the form of
one part of Ang and poorva and attained Swarga after Samadhi Maran.
103-104.
Subsequently Acharya Dharsen , who was residing in the Chandra cave of Urjayant
hill near Girinagarpur of Saurashtra country, was a great ascetic, was leader
amongst the Munis; he had knowledge of
the fourth Mahakarma Prabhrat of the fifth Vastu of second Poorva
named Agrayani.
105-106. That Dharsen Muni was highly intelligent having
great nobility. Realising that the end of his life is close by and the
scripture learnt by us with great difficulty would then be dissolved, he sent a
letter with a Bramhachari to the congregation of Munis collected at Pur by the
side of Venak river of Indra country.
107.
The mahatma Sadhus took the letter from the Bramhachari and opening its bonds
they read it there.
108-110.
Acharya Dharsen, resident of Chadra cave at the foothills of Urjayant hill
wishes wellbeing, glory and greetings to the Munis collected at the banks of
Venak river. I would like to state that my life is short , therefore to prevent
dissolution of the scriptures learnt by
me, send two Munis having sharp intellect capable of learning and absorbing it from me.
111.
Those Munis at the banks of Venak river, with proper consideration selected two
munis with sharp intellect and sent them. Those two also reached Urjayant Giri
quite soon.
112.
The night before the arrival of those two Munis, Dharsenacharya dreamt of two
white bulls bowing in his feet.
113.
On seeing that dream he uttered “ Glory be to shri Devata “ and waking up he saw those two Munis arriving
.
114-115.
With lot of respect, proper care was arranged for the two guest Munis. After
arrival they were rested for three days and considering that a proper
examination would bring happiness to the heart, the Acharya asked them to master
two skills(mantras) having defects of
less and more letters.
116.
The two Munis practiced to master the Mantras on the same rock from which Bhagwan Neminath had
contemplated and attained Siddhahood . Soon two Devis appeared in front of the
Munis.
117.
For the Muni who had practiced with the Mantra having lesser letters, the Devi
appeared having one eye, and for the Muni who had practiced with Mantra having
more letters, the Devi appeared with large teeth.
118-120.
On seeing the corrupted form of the Devis , they thought that such is not the
natural form of the Devas and applied
grammatical correction to the mantras;
with the result that to the mantra with less letters, they added more
correctly while to the mantra with more letters they subtracted correctly. On
worshiping the two mantras again the two devis appeared in their divine form
with ornaments of necklace, bangles, anklet, girdle etc. on their beautiful
bodies and asked them “ Tell us what you wish “.
121-122.
Both the Munis told that they did not
have objective either pertaining to the current world or the world next which
they needed to be fulfilled by those devis. On account of the directive of the
Guru only they had mastered that Mantra. Listening to those words of the Munis
the two Devis returned back to their places.
123.
Subsequently having mastered the two mantras, with great satisfaction they went
to guru Dharsenacharya and revealed all the incidents pertaining to it.
124.
The Maharaj Dharsenacharya also thought, “ these two are quite worthy
disciples”, - with this decision on an auspicious day, muhurta (time) and
Nakshatra (constellation), he started teaching the agam (scriptures) to those
two.
125-126.
Thereafter learning without laziness and with attentiveness, those two munis,
who were obedient to the guru and having
respect for the knowledge ,
systematically completed the learning on
the eleventh day of Shukla paksh of month of Asadh.
127.
The same day Devas corrected the uneven teeth of one of the Munis into even styled
beautiful and white ones and named him as Pushpadant.
128.
The other Muniraj was worshipped by the Devas belonging to the Bhoota community
by means of trumpets, loud felicitations, aromatic garlands, incense etc. in a ceremony
and called as ‘Bhootapati’. ( The same name became famous as Bhootabali)
129-133.
The next day Acharya Dharsen realizing that his end is near and not wishing the
disciples to be perturbed by his death – he called those two favorite disciples
Pushpadant and Bhootabali and explaining them suitably with appropriate words
sent them to town named Kurishwar.
Walking for nine days without break they reached that town. There they
spent the four months of rainy season
starting from the fifth day of Krishna paksh of Asadh month. Subsequently
travelling south they went to Karahaar country. There the Muniraj Pushpadant
gave ordination to his nephew Jinapalit and accompanying him went to Vanavas
country to stay there. Bhootbali Muniraj also went to the Mathura city of Dravid
country which is now called ‘Madura’ and
settled there.
134-135.
Subsequently Muniraj Pushpadant created six Khands ( divisions) of the subject
for teaching to his sister’s son Jinapalit in Karahaar country. These contained
descriptions of karma prakritis in brief along with gunasthan, jivasthan and
twenty types of Satpraroopana with
chapter on Jivasthana etc. properly.
136.
Creating those hundred verses he sent them to Bhootbali Muni for ascertaining
his impressions. Jinapalit also went there.
137-140.
Subsequently Mahatma Bhoorbali heard the Satpraroopana read by Jinapalit,
disciple of Pushpadant Acharya. Realizing the purpose of creation of
Shatkhandagam by Acharya Pushpadant and realizing that people would be having
short life and limited intellect, he created five khands inclusive of Dravya
Praroopana Adhikar having 6000 sutras inclusive of those written by Acharya
Pushpadant. Further he created 6th Khand with 30000 sutras namely
Mahabandh.
141.
The first one is Jivasthana and next is Kshullak Bandh or Khuddabandh. The
third is Bandh Swamitva . fourth and fifth are Vedana and Vargana Khand .
142-143.
In this manner Bhootbali Maharaj created the Shatkhandagam. Subsequently
installation within the books by means of Asadbhav Sthapana was carried out on
5th day of Shukla paksh in the month of Jyeshtha, in presence of
four types of Sangh i.e. Muni, Aryika, Shravak, Shravika with proper worship
and procedure.
144.
For this reason this day of Jyeshtha Shukla Panchami became famous as Shruta
Panchami and even today Jains worship shruta gyan on this day.
145.
Subsequently Bhootbali Maharaj sent the shatkhandagam with Jinapalit for
Pushpadant Guru for his perusal.
146-147.
Pushpadant Maharaj , on seeing Shatkhandagam in the hands of Jinapalit was
overwhelmed, ‘ oh! The task desired by me has been completed.’ Therefore with great pleasure he worshiped it
in the company of Muni, Aryika, Shravak, Shravika , four types of Sangh.
148.
Subsequently Pushpadant Acharya also conducted worship of the Siddhant Mahagam
( Shatkhandagam) on the day of Shruta
Panchami in the same way as conducted by Acharya Bhootabali with full procedure
using garlands, incense, bells, clothes etc.
149.
In this manner after describing the birth of Shatkhandagam , I (Indranandi) now
proceed to describe the birth of Kashayapahud.
150.
Gunadhar Munindra was knowledgeable of the third Pejja Dosh Prabhrat of the
tenth Vastu of the fifth Poorva named Gyan Pravad.
151.
The author Acharya Indranandi says, “ The lineage of the gurus of Gunadhar
Acharya , the author of Pejja dosh Prabhrat
or Kashaya Pahud and Dharsen
Acharya guru of Pushpadant and Bhootabali , authors of Shatkhandagam is not
known since no agam (scripture) is available describing the same.”
152-154.
Subsequently Gunadhar Munidra created
Kashaya Prabhrat also known as Pejja Dosh Pahud
keeping in mind his current strength of the body, with one hundred and
eighty three gatha sutras and fifty three
descriptive gathas. After completion he narrated it to his disciples
Nagahasti and Arya Mankshu in detail.
155.
From Acharya Gunadhar his disciples Nagahasti and Arya Mankshu learnt the Kashaya Pahud in detail. In the
company of these two the Muni Yativrishabh who was great amongst the Yatis
learnt the meanings of the Gatha Sutras with competence.
156.
Subsequently that great Yati Yativrishabh created 6000 sutras for describing
those Gathas as Churni Sutras.
157-158.
From Acharya Yativrishabh another Muniraj Uchharanacharya, after learning the
gathas and their meaning properly further created twelve thousand Uchharana
sutras for describing them.
159.
In this manner the scripture named Kashaya Pahud comprises of Gathas, Churnis
and Uchharana sutras. In this Achrya Gunadhar created the gathas, Acharya
Yativrishabh the Churni sutras and Uchharanachaya created the Uchharana sutras.
160-161.
Subsequently in the lineage of the Gurus and their disciples, this Siddhant
Granth was learnt in dravya and bhava form by Muni Padmanandi of the Kunda
Kundapur village. That Padmanandi muni
also created granth named Parikarma containing
commentary on Shatkhandagam etc. with twelve thousand gathas.
162-167.
After passage of some time, Acharya named Shamkunda, after learning these two
agamas Shatkhandagam and Kashaya Pahud fully,
created commentary called Paddhati in Prakrit, Sanskrit and Kannada
languages on these two leaving out the
sixth khand Mahabandh which itself contains twelve thousand gathas. After some
time another Achraya Tumbalur of Tumbalur village also created commentary on
these two scriptures except the sixth khand in 84000 gathas in kannada language
called Choodamani. Also he created commentary of Vargana Khand of shatkhandagam
with 7000 gathas called Panjika.
168-169.
After sometime great logician by name shri Samantbhadra Swami was born. In his
old age, he too went through both the Siddhantas and created sweet Sanskrit
commentary on the first five khands of shatkhandagam in 48000 gathas.
170.
Subsequently Samantbhadra Swami was intending to write the commentary on the
second Kashaya Pahud Siddhant but he was prevented by his co practitioner to
write due to his lack of appropriate cleanliness with regard to practices required for the same.
171-176.
In this manner both types of Siddhants were passed on by way of teaching from
gurus to disciples. In continuity of this tradition they were taught by very
intelligent munis Shubhanandi and Ravinandi staying in the famous Magan Valli
village near the beautiful Utkalika village in the country of Bhimarathi and
Krishna Megh rivers to Bappadeva. Guru Bappadeva also learnt these two
Siddhantas from them and he created commentary on the first five khands of
Shatkhandagam by name Vyakhya Pragyapti
and a concise commentary on the sixth khand in 8005 gathas in Prakrit
Language. He also wrote commentary on Kashaya Pahud in 60000 gathas separately
furthering the tradition of previous commentators.
177.
After lapse of considerable period, there was shriman Elacharya who was
resident of Chitrakutpura who was knowledgeable of the Siddhant Granths.
178.
Guru Veersen learnt the Siddhants totally
from shriman Elacharya resident of Chitrakutpur and wrote Nibandhan etc.
eight chapters.
179-184.
Subsequently Veersen Acharya following his Guru’s wishes, came from
Chitrakutapura and stayed in the Jinendra bhagwan temple constructed by
Aantendra in Vaatgram and acquiring Vyakhya Pragyapti teeka written
by Guru Bappadeva, wrote commentary on complete Shatkhandagam except the last
khand in 72000 gathas in Prakrit Sanskrit language by name Dhavala.
Further he wrote commentary on
Kashayapahud in 20000 gathas by name Jaya Dhavala before he attained heaven.
Subsequently his disciple Jinasen completed the commentary on Jaya Dhavala with
another 40000 gathas. In this manner the commentary on Kashaya Prabhrat by name Jaya Dhavala was written in 60000
gathas.
185.
In this manner Indra nandi Muniraj described Shrutavatara to be propounded by
Rishis for the benefit of bhavya jivas on the occasion of Shruta Panchami.
186.
Further Indranandi Acharya shows his humbleness by saying,” With my limited
knowledge this Shrutavatara has been written. In this whatsoever has been
written contrary to the Agams, that should be removed by the knowledgeable
people to cleanse it further.
187.
In this manner this Shrutavatara granth is completed in 187 gathas.
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