Mahavira and his Teaching

SR No.: 008019
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti
Publication Year: 1977
Total Pages: 509
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Biography, Religion, & Principle
File Size: 12 MB

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LUDWIK STERNBACH
some well known and current sayings, as well as also some rarely quoted or unknown in other non-jinıstic subhāsıta-samgraha-s verses."
C. Ekādaśadvāranibaddha Upadesa 5. Lately a new subhāṣita-samgraha collected by a Jaina sadhu, but also not of a Jainistic character, was published; it is a collection of 98 verses bearing in its MS. in the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Poona an intriguing title “Ekādas advāranibad dha Upa desa. It was published by Dr. V. Raghavan in the second volume of the Malayamārutah (pp. 96-107).
(Contd) he was patronised by the Rāştrakūta kings, Amogha varsa and Nộpatunga; he also wrote the Adipurāņa chapters 43-47 forming the Cūlıkā to the main text of the Mahāpurāņa of his teacher Jinasena; the Uttara purāņa forming chapters 48-77 of the Mahāpurāņa which was the supplement to the Adipurāna, the Jinadattacarita or Jinadatta kathās a mucca y a, a poem in nine chapters; the JI vandhara caritra, the Neminātha caritra and the Pārs vanātha (s vām) caritra (The Ātmanuśāsana was published in Sanātana Jaina Granthamālā No 1 in Bombay in 1905; by Hīrābāg in Bombay in 1916; and in Jivarā ja Jaina Granthamālā 11 in Sholapur in 1961; it was translated into Fnglish in the Sacred Books of the Jainas, Arrah 1928). It may be also mentioned that some Sanskrit anthologies comprise subhāşıta-s of Jinistic character, eg. the Subhāşita vyakhyānasa m graha, published in MS form samvat 1968 (=A.D. 1911); it contains some verses with Jaina teachings; as well as the Subhāşitapa dya-r atnāk a ra by Vija va dharma Sûri published in the Jaina Granthamāla, Ujjain, Vikrama sainvat 1992 in two volumes; this subhāşıta-sangraha quotes many subhāşıta-s of general nature which do not contain Jainistic teachings; and the Pernunthoga i compiled by M. Raghava Ayyangar of Ramnad (published in Madurai in 1935/36), one of the largest colection of verses mostly in Tamii (2214 verses), which contains in its first section invocations to Jaina (other invocations are to Vışņu, Siva, Durgā, Buddha, etc.)