Bodhagayā

Bodhagayā · bodha-gayā, “Gayā of awakening”

Āditya has other meanings too: see all meanings of Āditya.

Bodhagayā is a city on the bank of the Karmanāśā river, as the text gives it. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that there the Āditya, born to the vipra Jina and his wife Jayanī, held debate and took the Veda from the śūdras.

The Āditya at Bodhagayā

Bhagavān Jagannātha tells Kṛshṇacaitanya that there was a vipra named Jina, whose wife was Jayanī; the two had been born to Kaśyapa from Aditi in the Kokaṭa country. Through them, for the good of the world, the Āditya was born. On the bank of the Karmanāśā river is a city named Bodhagayā. There he, equipped with the Bauddha śāstra, held debate and took the Veda from the śūdras. He went to the city of Viśālā, glossed in the print as Badarīkshetra, woke the munis who were in samādhi there and gave them the Veda. From that time all the devagaṇas left the earth and went to svarga; the mlecchas became Bauddhas, and all the rest became devoted to the Veda.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 21

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 21