History of Rastrakutas of Malkhed and Jainism

SR No.: 006719
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Nagarajaiah Hampa
Publisher: Ankita Pustak
Publication Year: 2000
Total Pages: 374
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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The Raṣṭrakūtas Monarchs - A/13
narrative. This lends support to ruminate the possibility of the work being a campū-kāvya.
1.6.5.1. Śrīnandi had writtenJaina Mahāpurāṇa in the time of Dhärāvarṣa Dhruva and Kücibhaṭṭāraka in the period of Jagattunga Govinda. Thus, Kaviparamēṣṭhi was the third author to write on the same subject. But, none of the three works are available.
1.6.6. However, Mahāpurāņa, a full -blooded master piece in Sanskrit, co-authored by Jinasena-Gunabhadra ācāryas is extant. Jinasena (758-848) wrote the first part, Adipurāṇa, addressing it to his favourite king disciple Amōghavarṣa. As the apostle Indrabhūti Gautama (Pk. Indabui-Gōyama) directs king Śrēņika (Pk. Sēņiya) in the proper behaviour of a king, so does the patriarch Jinasēna educates Amōghavarṣa. (fruitful showerer'). He preferred to entertain religious propensities to expansionist tendencies, often giving vent to the scholar and composer in him. His great leanings towards śramaņa dharma made Amōghavarṣa to pass some days in retirement and contemplation in the company of his Jaina ascetics, placing the yuvarāja, heir apparent or the ministry in charge of state administration [Altekar, A. S: 88-89]. "(Amoghavarṣa) was a pious king, and in the years after A.D. 860 he was more and more inclined to practicing the tenets of Jainism: [Soundara Rajan, K. V. in EITA: 1986: 107: (eds) Meister and Dhaky].
1.6.7. Praśnottara-Ratna-mālika, a concise and honeyed Jaina philosophical lyric in Sanskrit echos the king's thought and muse over the values of life. It has the invocatory passage of 'Pranipatya-Vardhmanasya'. This short poem with religion oriented verses in Arya metre is in the form of prasna-, questions, and uttara, answers, all woven together like a mālikā garland. This work being sometimes wrongly attributed to Vimala or Sankarācārya or some unknown author, reflects the universal application of the work.