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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Religious Divisions in the Jaina Community
16. (i) It is asserted that in the beginning both the Digambaras and the
Svetāmbaras used to have common temples and idols and that from the 7th or 8th century of the Vikram era only the practice of having separate temples and idols of the Digambaras and svetāmbaras came into vogue as the Svetāmbaras from that time began to adorn the idols Vide Jain Hiralal : op. cit., pp. 44-45. (ii) In this connection I am informed by Prof. Dalasukha Malavaniya that in the beginning the idols worshipped by Svetāmbaras used to be made like those worshipped by Digambaras. But later on this practice gave rise to quarrels between Digambaras and Svetāmbaras over the possession of temples. Hence, with a view to put an end to such incessant troublesome quarrels, Svetāmbaras began, probably from the
12th or 13th century A. D., to put on clothes on their idols. 17. Mehta, M. L. : Jaina Culture, pp. 19-20. 18. Vide Indian Antiquary, Vol XXXI (1902), pp. 66-67. 19. Dr. Glasenapp : Jainism, pp. 366-67. 20. Nathuram Premi : Jaina Hitaishi, vol. 7. pp. 3-8. 21. For detailed and critical account of Taranapantha vide. Nathuram
Premi : Jaina Hitaishi, vol. 8. pp. 90-303, 549-557; Vol. 9. pp. 33-38; 198-206 and 532-539. Also vide Ranwaka K. C. : "Santa TaranaTāraņa aura Unakā Tāraṇa Pantha ", Mahāvīra Jayanti Smārikā,
1962, pp. 212-213. 22. Nahata, Agarchand : " Jaina Dharma men Sampradāyonkā udbhava
aura vikasa ", Jaina Jagat, Silver Jubilee Volume, p. 172. 23. (i). For information about personality of Lonkāśaha and the spread
of Lońkā sect vide, Bhanwarlal Nahata : "Lonkāśāha aura usake Anuyāyī,” Shrimat Rājendrasūri Smāraka Grantha, pp. 470-477. (ii) For a masterly and detailed account of Lonkāśāha and his preachings vide Malvania, Dalsukha: “Lonkāśāha aura unaki Vicharadharā," Gurudeva Sri Ratnamuni Smriti-Grantha. pp. 365-383. Vide S. Stevenson : Heart of Jainism p. 88. There is another version regarding the meaning of Dhundhiyā. “They are so called because its followers were persecuted by the orthodox and compelled to take refuge in ruins ( Dhunda)". Vide M. Millett: Some Modern Jaina Sects--Hindu Antipathy to Jainas ", Indian Anti
quary, Vol. XXV (1896), p. 147. 25. Vide Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. 12, p. 124. 26. For the masterly account of the Sthānakavāsi sub-sect vide Muni Sri.
Sushila Kumaraji : "Sthānakavāsi Jaina Dharma ka Samkshipta Itihasa". Svarna Jayanti Grantha (Akhila Bharatiya Svet&mbra Stha
nakavāsi Jaina Conference, Delhi), pp. 25-62. 27. There is a slight difference in date. At another place the writer gives
the date as 1474 A. D.
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