History of Jaina Monachism

SR No.: 001727
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute
Publication Year: 1956
Total Pages: 616
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Principle, & History
File Size: 12 MB

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S. B. DEO (3) Dravida291 (4) Jaisavālānvaya292 (5) Khandelavāla293 (6) Kundakunda294 (7) Nandisanghānyaya295 (8) Pāşāņa296 (9) Pustaka297 (10) Sena298 (11) Tālakola299 (12) Vagheravāla300
Out of all these Anvayas, the Kundakundānvaya is the most important, and very old. It is mentioned in the Merkara Copper plates301 of Saka 388.
It is said to have been started after Kundakunda, the famous Digambara scholar, who flourished in about the beginning of the Christian era. 302
The importance of Kundakunda is further attested by the fact that not less than four Sanghas of the Digambara Church have an anvaya after his name.
(c) Balis :
(1) Hanasoge or Panasoge303 (2) Inguleśvara304 (3) Vāņada305
291. E.C., VI, Mg. 18. 292. NAHAR, I, 472. 293. Ibid., 388; JSB., VII, i, p. 14.
294. E.C., I, Cg. 1; II, 72, 167, 187, 331; III, p. 211; IV, Yedatore, 23; V. Chann. 148; VI, Kd. 1; VIII, Sorab, 122; XII, Gubbi, 57; E.I., XXIII, p. 106; II, p. 72, GUERINOT, op. cit., 702, 744; JSB., VII, 1, p. 13; XIV, I, pp. 28-29, etc., etc.
295. E.I., XV, p. 345. 296. GUERINOT, op. cit., 193. 297. E.C., IV, Yedatore 26. 298. E.I., XIII, p. 190; "Same as Senagana in the Mülasangha": Ibid., p. 192. 299. E.C., VII, Shikarpur, 136. 300. NAHAR, II, 1594. 301. E.C., I, Cg. 1. 302. For details, see UPADHYE, Prv., Intr. p. xxij. 303. E.C., II, 155; V, Belur, 124; VI, Chik: 2; GUERINOT, op. cit., 449; JBBRAS., X,
pp. 173-5.
304. E.C., III, Nānj. 63; IV, Nāg. 32; Chām. 151; Hunsur 123; V, Belur 131, 133, 134; IX Cg. 56; XII, Sira. 32.
305. Ibid., Pav. 51; GUERINOT, op. cit., 478.