Any suggestion about the following middle-aged
Jaina-source, which describes the origin of the ikkhAgu-vaMsa?
Sakko (=Indra) maha-ppamANAo ikkhu-laTThIo gahAya uvagato
jayAvei.
!!! bhagavatA laTThIsu diTThI pADitA.
!!!
tAhe SakkeNa bhaNiyaM: kiM bhagavaM! ikkhu aku? aku
bhakkhaNe.
Then the Bhagavan stretched out his dakSiNa
hand,
atIva tammi hariso jAto bhagavantassa.
taeNaM Sakkassa ayam eyArUve
ajjhatthite:
jamhA NaM titthagaro ikkhuM abhilasati tamhA ikkhAgu-vaMso
bhavatu.
evaM Sako vaMsaM ThaveUNa gato.
There seems ikkhu + aku = ikSvAku-vaMza. Probably
aku means a + ku (not + bad)
´Someone of the listmembers remembers how many knots
there are on one sugarcane? Always the same number 2 ? Or
different?
Any suggestion?? Probably in connection with the
twin-mythologem?