Jaina Community a Social Survey

SR No.: 007019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Vilas Sangve
Publisher: Popular Book Depot Bombay
Publication Year: 1980
Total Pages: 484
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 12 MB

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Jaina Community-A Social Survey
NOTES 1. Ghurye, G. S. : Caste and Race in India, pp. 40-41. 2. Dutt, N. K. : Origin and Growth of Caste in India, pp. 86-87. 3. Ibid., pp. 64-65 and 191-194. 4. Ibid, pp. 233-34. 5. Bool Chand : Lord Mahāvira, pp. 4-5. 6. Dutt, N. K. : op. cit., p. 204. 7. Ādi Purāņa, Parva 38, 45-46. 8. Padma Purāņa, Prava XI, 200, 203 and 205. 9. Dharma-pariksha : Parichcheda XVII; 24-25, 31-33. 10. For a similar denouncement of the division of society into four classes
based on birth and for the necessity of considering all people on the
same level see Varāngacharita, XXV, 2-11. 11. Phulachandra : Varna, Jāt, aura Dharma, p. 186. 12. Adi Purāna, Parva 38, Stanzas 55-62 and Parva 39, Stanzas 61-71.
Also see Chapter V, Section 12. 13. Adi Purāņa, Parva 39, Stanza 71.
_ इत्युक्त्वैन समाश्वास्य वर्णलाभेन युंजते।
विधिवत् सोऽपि तं लब्ध्वा याति तत्समकक्षताम् ॥ . 14. Jaini, J. L. : Jaina Law, p. 9. 15. Law, B. C. : India as Depicted in Early Texts of Buddhism and Jainism,
p. 143. 16. Vide (i) Yati Sripalchandraji : Jaina Sampradaya Siksha, pp. 686-87.
and (ii) Rāmalalajī : Mahā jana-Vamsa-muktāvali, pp. 164-165. 17. Jain, P. D. : Vijātiya Vivaha Mimāṁsā, p. 35. 18. From Dharmasārasangraha or Daśalakshanādipujā. 19. Wilson : Works by Wilson, Vol. I, p. 345. 20. Recently 2 more lists of 84 castes in the Jaina community have been
found in the Jain temples of North India. By making a comparative study of these 2 lists and the 5 tists mentioned above, it is revealed that the names of as many as 357 castes prevalent among the Jainas are mentioned in at least 2 of these 7 different lists. Vide Polyaka, Bhanwarlal: "Bhārat ki Jaina Jatiyal", Babu Chhotelal Jaina Smriti Grantha, pp
259-262. 1. Vide Yati śrīpālachandrajī : Jaina Sampradayasikshā, p. 617. 22. Vide “On the Jains of Gujaratha and Marwar,” Transactions of Royal
Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. III, 1835, pp. 335-371. 23. Enthoven, R. E. : T. C. B., Vol. 1, p. 303. 4. Enthoven, R. E.: T. C. B., Vol. II, pp. 22 and 33-34.