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________________ 170 who went towards daksināpatha along with Bhadrabāhu and other 12000 monks. [12] The Cāņakyarşikathā of Devācārya is given in the Jina-ratnakośa of Prof.H.D. Velankar, published by Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune. It is found in manuscript-form and probably not published up till now. Detailed information is not given but we can guess that it is a small biography of Cāņakya written in Sanskrit, probably written by the Digambara ācārya (Devācārya), following Harişeņa's Cāņakya-muni-kathānakam. We have to take a note of this independent kathā because except this book, we do not find separate carita of Cāņakya in the Jaina tradition. Cāņakya-narratives are presented either in the form of examples, analogies or incorporated in the life-sketches of Bhadrabāhu and Sthūlabhadra. [13] A commenatry on the Puṇyāśrava-kathā-kośa is written by Pt. Daulatram Kashliwal in the old Hindi during the 16th Century A.D. It is actually the old Hindi translation of the Punyāśrava-kathā-kośa. The narrative of Cāņakya is given on pp.155-157. Nothing is remarkable in this old Hindi version but it proves that the legacy of Cāņakya-narratives was continued in the Jaina tradition from 3rd century A.D. upto 16th century A.D.
SR No.007699
Book TitleChanakya Explored in Jaina Literature
Original Sutra AuthorN/A
AuthorNalini Joshi
PublisherFirodaya Prakashan
Publication Year2014
Total Pages257
LanguageEnglish
ClassificationBook_English
File Size1 MB
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