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
255 pariksă are dated Vikrama Samvat 1050, 1073 and 1070, respectively. Besides the three works mentioned above, Upāsakācāra, his Saṁskrta versification of Arādhanā of Sivārya, Sāmāyikapātha, and Bhāvanādvātrimśikā are also ascribed to Amitagati.1 12. Subhacandra
Subhacandra has quoted a verse from Puruşārtha siddhyupāya of Amrtacandra, who has been quoted by Jayasena in his Dharma Ratnākara in Vikrama Samvat 1055. So we can fix this as the lower limit of subhacandra. The upper limit of his time can be fixed on the basis of a manuscript of Jānārņava, the praśasti of which mentions Vikrama Samvat 1248. According to Shri Premi, there is another manuscript of 7ñānārnava which must be at least 30 years older than the first one. Thus we can place Subhacandra somewhere between 1055 and 1248 of Vikrama era.
Winternitz places Subhacandra at the close of the 8th or the beginning of the 9th century.3
We mention below some more works on Jaina morality, arranged chronologically, with their probable dates : Author Works
Date Devasena
Aläpapaddhati, Nayacakra, 10th cent. A.D.4 Brhadnayacakra, Bhāva
Samgraha, Darśanasāra. Cāmundarāya Căritrasära
10th cent. A.D.5 Padmanandi Dharmarasāyana
12th cent. A.D.8 Māghānandi Srāvakācāra
1260 A.D.? Guna Bhūsana Srāvakācāra
13th cent. A.D.8 Padmanandi Srāvakācāra
15th cent. A.D.)
1. Premi, Nāthurāma, faina sāhitya aura itihāsa, p. 280-281. 2. Ibid., p. 334. . 3. Winternitz, M., A History of Indian Literature, Vol. II, p. 583. 4. Darśanasāra was completed in Vik. Sar. 990.
Cf. Mukhtāra, Purātana Jain vākya sūci, p. 116. 5. Williams, R., Jaina Yoga, p. 17. 6. Ibid., p. 26. 7. Ibid., p. 28. 8. Ibid., p. 17. 9. Williams, R., Jaina Yoga, p. 17.