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Samantabhadra (Jain monk)

May 01, 2023

Samantabhadra was a Digambara acharya (head of the monastic order) who lived about the later part of the second century CE.[1][2] He was a proponent of the Jaina doctrine of Anekantavada. The Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra is the most popular work of Samantabhadra. Samantabhadra lived after Umaswami but before Pujyapada.

Acharya

Samantabhadra
Personal
Born2nd century CE
ReligionJainism
SectDigambara
Notable work(s)Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra, Āpta-mīmāṁsā, Jinaśatakam

Life

Samantabhadra is said to have lived from 150 CE to 250 CE. He was from southern India during the time of Chola dynasty. He was a poet, logician, eulogist and an accomplished linguist.[3] He is credited with spreading Jainism in southern India.[4]

Samantabhadra, in his early stage of asceticism, was attacked with a disease known as bhasmaka (the condition of insatiable hunger).[5] As, digambara monks don't eat more than once in a day, he endured great pain. Ultimately, he sought the permission of his preceptor to undertake the vow of Sallekhana.[6] The preceptor denied the permission and asked him to leave monasticism and get the disease cured.[5] After getting cured he again joined the monastic order and became a great Jain Acharya.[7]

Thought

Samantabhadra affirmed Kundakunda's theory of the two nayas - vyavahāranaya (‘mundane') and niścayanaya (ultimate, omniscient). He argued however that the mundane view is not false, but is only a relative form of knowledge mediated by language and concepts, while the ultimate view is an immediate form of direct knowledge.[8] Samantabhadra also developed further the Jain theory of syādvāda.[citation needed]

Works

 
English translation of the Ratnakaranda śrāvakācāra (1917) by Champat Rai Jain

Jain texts authored by Acharya Samantabhadra are:[9]

Praise

Jinasena, in his celebrated work, Ādi purāṇa praises the Samantabhadra as[18]

Acharya Samantrabhadra’s glory reigned supreme among all poets, scholars, disputants, and preachers; he was like a jewel on their heads.

References

Citations

  1. ^ Gokulchandra Jain 2015, p. 82.
  2. ^ Champat Rai Jain 1917, p. iv.
  3. ^ Natubhai Shah 2004, p. 48.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Natubhai Shah 2004, p. 49.
  5. ^ a b Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. xviii.
  6. ^ Long 2009, p. 110.
  7. ^ Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. xx.
  8. ^ Long 2009, p. 130.
  9. ^ Gokulchandra Jain 2015, p. 84.
  10. ^ Samantabhadra, Ācārya (1 July 2006), Ratnakaranda Shravakacara, ISBN 9788188769049
  11. ^ Champat Rai Jain 1917, p. v.
  12. ^ Ghoshal 2002, p. 7.
  13. ^ Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. xvii.
  14. ^ a b Orsini & Schofield 1981, p. 89.
  15. ^ Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. xi.
  16. ^ Samantabhadrasvāmī (1969), Kevalajñānapraśnacūḍāmaṇi
  17. ^ Gokulchandra Jain 2015, p. 92.
  18. ^ Vijay K. Jain 2015, p. xv.

Sources

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