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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ON SOME NONCANONICAL SUBHA SITA
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(Contd.) the collection) non-Jinistic in character and some occur also in nonJinistic subhäşıta-sangrahas (e.g. 14, 29). The title Vairāgya-sataka is not very well suited to the contents of this collection, for numerous verses deal also with nitr; preferably this collection of didactic verses should be called "ni ti-vairāg ya-śataka”.
Verses on śrngära and vairagya were also collected in the Śị ngāra-vairāgy a-t a rangini by a Jaina Divāka ra Muni (Sriduvākaramuni pranità Śľngāravairāgyatarangini, sa ca abhayacandrabhagavānada sena prakāšitā, Ahmedabad 1916).
Other works which are setting forth the doctrines of Jainas are not mentioned here, with the exception of some works which have some bearings on the Jinistic didactic literature, such as:
Via ya la kşmi sūri's Upa de sa prasāda, a collection of stray verses in 24 sections on Jaina ethics, a kind of a Jaina breviary for every day reading, comprising aphorisms, as well as homilia and legends. Vijayalaksmisūri was the pupil of Vijayasaubhāgyasūri and completed his work in A.D. 1787; it was published in Sanskrit and Prākrit with a Gujarati translation by Cimanlāl Sākalcand Marphatīyā in Bombay in 1902/04 and in Jaina Dharmaprasāraka Sabhā, Bhavnagar. Bombay 1915-23 (Cf. M. A. GUÉRINOT in JA. S. 10; t. 14; No. 1030 and No. 1098;
Amrtacandra's Puruşārth a-s id dh y u pāya, or Jin a pra va can ara h a sy a ko sa containing 226 stray Sanskrit verses not only dealing with Jaina ethics (duties of a householder) but also with general moral precepts. The work was published with a Hindi translation by NATHŪRĀM PREMI in Bombay in 1906; in the Ra yacandra Faina Sastramala 1; in Sanātana Jaina Granthamala 1; it was translated into English and published with notes by AJIT PRASĀDA in the Sacred Books of the Jainas 4; (cf. M. A. GUERINOT in JA, S. 10; t. 14; No. 1081);
Also worth noting is the VI vidha bol ratnākara in two volumes containing stray didactic verses (aphorisms) in Sanskrit, Prākrit on the Jaina doctrine with a commentary in Gujarati, published in Ahmedabad in 1890 (cf. M. A. GUERINOT in JA; s. 10; t. 14; No. 921).
Also claimed as Jaina is the well known didactic poem, the Praśnottararatna-mālā ascribed to Vimala or
Vimala candra, king Amogh a varsa, as well as San ka ra. M.M.-10