Jaina Philosophy Historical Outline

SR No.: 006569
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Narendra Nath Bhattacharya
Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publisher's Pvt Ltd New Delhi
Publication Year: 1976
Total Pages: 242
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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Jain Philosophy in Historical Outline
deals with the nature of being grouped in various classes. Abhayadeva (AD 1064) wrote commentaries on the nine Angas, while Santi Sūri and Devendragaṇin (eleventh century) wrote exhaustive commentaries on the Uttaradhyayana. In AD 1113 Maladhāri Hemacandra Sūri wrote Bhavabhāvana in 531 gāthas, Devendra Sūri wrote in the thirteenth century the first five Karmagranthas which describes in detail the entire doctrine of Karma.
of other works, Mahāsena's Pradyumna-Caritra, Surācārya and Maladhâri Hemacandra's Nemināthacaritrās, Vādirāja, Bhavadeva and Māņikyacandra's Pārsvanāthacaritra-s, Vikrama's Nemidūta, Maladhāri Devaprabha's Mrgāvaticăritra, Jineśvara's Kathākoša, Sricandra's Purāņasāra, Ašādhara's Sāgāra-Dharmāmsta and Anāgara-Dharmamệta, Guņacandra's Mahāvīracarita, Dhaneśvara's Surasundaricarita, etc. are important. These were all composed between the tenth and thirteenth centuries. Some of them are written in Sanskrit. The greatest Jain writer of the twelfth century was the famous Hemacandra who bore the title Kalikāla-Sarvajña. His Sanskrit works have been mentioned above. He also composed a number of Prakrit works including Kumārapālacarital which was written mainly to illustrate the rules of Prakrit grammar.
During the period between AD 1000 and 1300 important works in Apabhramśa were done by the Jains, most of them narrating the lives of the Jain teachers or heroes or the tales bearing on Jain religion. Of the Apabhramsa works on Jainism, composed during this period, reference must be made to the Pajjūnna-kahā of Simha narrating in fifteen cantos the life of Pradyumna Kumāra, the Kathākośa of Sricandra (not the one referred to above) containing 53 religions tales, the Pārsvapurāņa of Padmakīrti describing in 18 sandhis the life of Pārśva, the Sukumāla-Cariu of Śrīdhara describing the story of Sukumāra who became a Jain monk, the Sudarsana-carita of Nayanandi, the didactic poem Kalāsvarūpakulakam of Jinadatta Sūri, the Nemināha-cariu-s of Haribhadra: and Lakşmaņadeva, the Yogasära of Yogicandra Muni, the Vairāgyasāra of Suprabhācārya, the Chakkammovaesa of Amarakirtigani, the Aņuvaya-rayana-paíu of
Ed. P.L. Vaidya, 1936. His Dešinamamāla was first edited with critical notes, glossary and a historical introduction by M. Banerjee, 1931 and P. Ramanujaswami, 1938.
2Ed. L.B. Gandhi, GOS, XXXVII, 1927. 'A section of this work was edited with notes by Jacobi, 1921.