Jaina Ethics

SR No.: 001334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Dayanand Bhargav
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1968
Total Pages: 314
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Principle
File Size: 15 MB

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Ethical Literature of the Jainas
Säntisuri (11th cent. A.D.) wrote a commentary on Uttaradhyayana in Samskṛta. Nemicandra Suri (11th. A.D.) also wrote a commentary on Uttaradhyayana. Abhaya Deva Suri (11th cent. A.D.) wrote commentaries on the last nine Angas. Malayagiri wrote commentaries on six Upangas from second to seventh, and also on Vyavahara Bhasya, Pinda Niryukti, Avasyaka, Bṛhatkalpa Bhasya and Nandi. The last mentioned work was completed in 1235 A.D.
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Besides, we may mention, Vijaya Vimala (1578 A.D.), Santi Candra (1594 A.D.) and Samaya Sundaragani (17th cent. A.D.) as some of the commentators on Agamas.
Non-Canonical literature of the Svetambaras
Besides the canonical literature, there is a vast literature of Svetambara sect covering every branch of knowledge. Herebelow we survey the most important works on Jaina morality in Prākṛta and Samskṛta.
1. Śrāvakaprajñapti and Tattvarthasūtra of Umāsvāti:
The history of non-canonical literature of Svetambaras begins with Umāsvāti, to whom the authorship of Tattvarthasutra and Sravakaprjñapti is attributed. The former of these, as quite convincingly proved by R. Williams, seems to belong to the Digambara tradition from the point of view of its contents,1 and shall be dealt with under Digambara literature. Sravakaprajñapti, on the other hand, is certainly a Svetāmbara text. R. Williams thinks that it must be attributed to some author other than that of Tattvarthasutra.2 Though Abhayadeva, in his commentary on Pañcāsaka, refers to a Sravakaprajñapti of Umäsvāti,3 and Yasovijaya and Municandra Suri also refer to a Sravakaprajñapti of Umāsvāti, yet Abhayadeva himself refers to the second gāthā of the present Srävakaprajñapti as that of Haribhadra. Dr. Hiralala Jaina,
1. Williams, R., Jaina Yoga, London, 1963, p. 2. 2. Ibid., p. 3.
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Quoted from Jaina, H.L., Bharatiya Sanskrti mem Jainadharma kā yogadāna, p. 110.