Jains Through Time

SR No.: 006591
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shilapi Sadhvi
Publisher: Veerayatan
Total Pages: 282
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 16 MB

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The Jains through Time
kingdom, and removing as many obstacles as the cultural consciousness from which these he could to the propagation of Jainism. 'characters' arose. The poetic description of
the lives of these people touches the heart of Kalikalsarvagya Acharya Hemchandra was an the reader. Those who love learning about effective administrator as well as a great history find that it contains much useful literary figure. The Siddhahaimavyakaran, a information on the subject, as well as a beautifully crafted grammar book which he variety of topics such as religion, philosophy wrote at Siddharaj's request, greatly and literature. Which other works of enriched Gujarati literature and is still very Acharya Hemchandra should I mention? popular in schools and colleges. Only in They are legion; if I start describing them Gujarat have I seen this offering to all, it will take me from here to eternity! I Saraswati - the goddess of learning - will just say that he wrote over 35 million honoured in such a particular fashion. The couplets, and inscribed forevermore the grammar book, carefully placed in the name of the Jains on the 'forehead' of the howdah of an elephant, was welcomed by literature of Gujarat. the King into his kingdom. Three hundred scholars then sat and made copies of the Kumarpal : An Ideal Jain King book. It contains 8 chapters, and 3,566 Acharya Hemchandra's influence on verses, and has been accorded the same Gujarat's royal dynasties continued for many respect as the grammars of Panini, and years. Kumarpal, another of Gujarat's kings, Shaktayan. It has found a place of honour in was also filled with devotion for Acharya libraries from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Hemchandra. He built thirty two Jain
temples as an expiation for the crime of Trishashtishalakapurush is Hemchandra's once eating meat with his thirty two teeth excellent creation of the biographies of sixty when he was a young man! If the king turns three great personalities of the Jain religion, away from the religion so will the subjects. In each instance it provides a background of One does not need to meet a king to know