Could the future Sankhacakravarti please stand up?

Marie-Hélène Gorisse mhgorisse at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jan 22 17:38:24 UTC 2010


Thank you so much!
Bests,
Marie-Hélène Gorisse

2010/1/22 L.S. Cousins <selwyn at ntlworld.com>

> The cakkavatti(n) Saṅkha is the Universal Monarch at the time of the next
> Buddha: Metteyya/Maitreya. See Dīghanikāya III 75f.
>
> Lance Cousins
>
>  Dear members of the Indology list,
>>
>> I am working on Prabh�candra's *Prameyakamalam�rtanda* and this author, as
>> well as other Jain and Buddhist authors (notably Siddhasena Div�kara in
>> his
>> Ny�y�vat�ra and Moks�karagupta in his Bauddhatarkabh�s�) are using the
>>
>> expression "Sankhacakravarti" to denote a future agent (especially in the
>> argument of the three times).
>>
>> Unfortunately, I have not managed to find any tracks of this
>> Sankhacakravarti neither in Jain mythology, nor in Buddhist cosmology.
>>
>> May I ask you if anyone have heard about such a character?
>> If it might be of some help, the one standing for past agents in the *
>> Prameyakamalam�rtanda* is R�vana.
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much!!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Marie-H�l�ne Gorisse
>>
>>
>> http://stl.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/sitespersonnels/rahman/rahmanequipegorisse2006.html
>>
>>
>





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