Narrative Tale in Jain Literature

SR No.: 006527
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Satyaranjan Banerjee
Publisher: Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 162
Language: English
Classification: Book_English & Literature
File Size: 8 MB

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Name of the work Author
1. कालकाचार्य
2. बृहत् कथाकोष '
3. कथाकोष 4. कथावली
5. कथामणिकोष
6. कथाको
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6.
हरिषेणाचार्य
श्रीचन्द्र भद्रेश्वर
देवेन्द्रगणि जिनेश्वर सूरि
Date
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Language
1073 A. D.
1092 A. D.
Prakrit
931-32 A.D. (Composed this text)
941-996 A. D. Apabhramsa
10th cent.
Prakrit
A.D.
Sanskrit
Prakrit
Prakrit
Contents
It is the story of Kalaka who transferred the date of paryūṣaṇa festival from the fifth to the fourth of the first half of the
month of Bhadra.
More than 157 tales
53 tales
It narrates the
accounts of 63 Śalākā-puruṣas 41 chapters
239 gāthās
Remarks
Recited by the monks at the end of the Kalpasūtra
Ed. & tr. by H. Jacobi, ZDMG, 34, 1880, pp. 247-318: Supplements to it ZDMG 35. 1881, p. 675 ff.; Leumann, ZDMG. 37, 1883, p. 493 ff. N. W. Brown, The Story of Kalaka, Washington, 1933, (Almost all the recensions have been examined by him); Vide Jinaratnakosha. 7. Ed. by A. N. Upadhye, Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Bombay, 1943. Bhau Daji, JBRAS. IX, 1867. p. 130 ff.
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NARRATIVE TALE IN JAIN LITERATURE