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________________ JAINA LITERATURE OF THE NORTH language. Numerous are the Jaina treatises on poetics, on metrics, and on Niti in its two branches--the Rajaniti or statecraft, and the Samanyanite, which contains rules for the clever conduct of life. For the education of princes, Jaina authors wrote treatises on the sciences of elephants, of horses, of war-carriages and of bows, and on erotics; and for the use of the rest of the population they composed works on magic and on astrology, on omina and portenta, and on onerrocritics, which has played so important a role in Indian life They even composed manuals of architecture and of music, and treatises on gold and on jetrels. ... They are the creators of a very extensive popular literature." 1 With these introductory remarks we come to the Siddhanta, or the Holy Scriptures of the Jainas, which according to them come within the period under our consideration, As seen before, and as we shall see during the course of this chapter, we cannot disbelieve the traditions of the Jainas about their literary heritage. However for the present we give below the list of the scriptures of the Jaina canon which has been more or less accepted by scholars like Weber, Winternitz, Charpentier 4 and others : I. Fourteen Pwoas or Purvas (not extant). 1. Uppaya (Utpada) 2 Aggeniya or Agganiya (Agrayaniya). 3 Virtyappavaya (Varyapravada). 4. Atthinatthippavaya (Astinastipravada). 5. Nanappavaya (Jnanapravada) 6. Saccappavaya (Satyapravada) 7. Ayappavaya (Atmapravada). 8. Kammappavaya (Karmapravada). 9. Paccakkhanappavaya (Pratyokhyanapravada). 10. Vujanuppavaya (Vidyanupravada). 11. Avamgha (Avandliya). 12. Panaum (Pranayuh). 13 Kiryavisala (Kriyavisala) 14 Logavindusara (Lokabindusara). 1 Hertel, op cit, PP 5-6 . Cf. 1Veber, 14, XVI, Pp 379 ff, 339f1, 11, pp 181 11,300 11.; wx, pp. 62 11, xx, pp. 18 II, 170 1, 365 I., and xx, pp 14 ff, 10G ff ,177 If , 210 1,203 T, 327 , 309 ft * C Wintermutz, Geschichte der Indischen Literatur, it , pp. 201 ir cf Charpentier, op cit, Int , PP 9 ff., Belvalhar, Bralina-Sutras of Badardyana, pp. 107 11 . Cf. Charpentier, op. cut, Int, P 12 219
| SR No. | 011067 |
| Book Title | Jainism in North India |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Chimanlal J Shah |
| Publisher | Longmans Green and Compny London |
| Publication Year | 1932 |
| Total Pages | 66 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 3 MB |