Some Jaina Canonical Sutras

SR No.: 011033
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bimla Charn Law
Publisher: Royal Asiatic Society
Publication Year: 1949
Total Pages: 229
Language: English
Classification: Book_English, Agam, & Canon
File Size: 24 MB

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PRAJNAPAŅĀ (PAŅŅAVAŅA)
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c.g. mango, fig, plantaju, date, citron, breadfruit, pomagranate, woodapple, etc. (I. 23. 12-7). It also refers to various trees, c.g. Nimbu, Jambu, Sāla, Vaikule, Palūšu, Bilva, Asoka, Asvattha, Udumbara, Sirīsa, Saptu parnu, Lodhra, Candanu, Arjuna, Āmaluga, Bibhitku, Mālulinga, Nandi, Batu, Tiluku, etc. (I. 23.1241, 354.). The text refers to tailors (tunnugā), weavers (luntuvāyar) and makers of silk cloth (putukulu) (I. 37). Ivory workers are mentioner among important artisans (Ibid., 1. 37). L* bags were made for holding water (Ibid., T. 37). The Arras are divided into five clisses according in place (khe , birthi (jāti), family (kul), tracle (kumm), linguage (bhisi), indi arts and crafts (sippe). (Ibid., 1. 37.)
time rainy soon, delightfully fragrant (vide B. C. Law, Studirs in the Apudano, J.B.B.R.A.S. (New Series), Vol. 13, (1937).
('. Pauli Apadānu. (L.T.S.), 1'p. 346 ff. 1 6oka (uruca asoca-- medicinal plant, handsome tree; flowers at the beginning of the hot season; fluwe is pretty large in clusters; when first opens the fluwer is of a beautiful orange colour, grarlually changing to recl, forming a variety of shades, fragrant during the night. Bilra is Bel (Aegle marmel). Nimbe (Melia usudirucht)..its flowers are yWort conted. Plasa (Buteu. Frondasu)-flowering time. March-April, flowers derprod shaded with orange and silvrir coloured down. Sül (Shorea Robusla - Birhuut, Fig. 28). Tilaka (Tilentka. Symplocos racemo84) = Sanskrit Lothrit. Vumburu (Picus glomeruta) is fig (Barhut, Fig. 30). Takula = vikuiu (llimusops clonyi) --Bowers white, fragrant. Mutulingo = Mārluiga (citrus inolicu) is the citron. Jambu (Eugeniu jumboluna) = Külujām (blackberry). Bibhituka = Buholi (Terminalin bclerica). Its fruits are the commercial Beleric inyrabolans. Haritaku, Bibhitaka and Amalaka form the three commercial myrabolans. They are known as Tripiali in Bengal.