Doctrine of Jainas

SR No.: 011097
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas
Publication Year: 1978
Total Pages: 309
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 17 MB

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THE CHEY A SUTTAS muhūrtas, bird-omina, constellations, more omina. 82 v., sl. and G. at equal parts.
Tandulaveyālıya, so called after a calculation (vicāra) as to how many grains of rice (tandula) a normal individual would consume in the course of 100 (years) times 360 (days) times 30 (hours) times: 3773 (breaths). (They would fill 22 1/2 vaha.). A jumble of prose, G. and śl. of varying origin. Embryology, the human stages of life, the duration of life in remote times (including a description as to the bodies of Arhats, Cakravartins, etc.) and nowadays when the maximum age comes upto not more than 100 years (s. a.). Measures of capacity and of time. The parts of the body, the quantity of fluids contained by a human being, the body as an impure mass. A contemptuous description of the mothers, mostly laid down in comparisons and etymologies.
Ed. s.a. The text along with Vijayavimala's Vrtti and the Caus. DLJP 59, Bo. 1922.---The text with transl. in Guj. by HIRĀLĀL Hamsraj. Jāmnagar without year.
Devindatthaya. A layman commencing to praise (thaya) Vardhamāna (Mahāvīra) is interrupted by his wife the moment he mentions the devinda, the woman asking him to explain the meaning of the word to her. By way of personal information he systematically treats the 20+16+12 Bhavanavāsī, Vānamantara, Joisiya, and Vemānīya kings as to their seats, duration of their lives and faculties, moreover reporting on the Vemānıyas also as to their size, sexuality, etc. 302 G.
Viratthaya. A stotra of Mahāvīra whose various names are listed in 43 G.
As to the Titthogāli and the Ārāhanāpaļāgā which occasionally appear among the Painnas the AUTHOR has come to know them through manuscripts as abstracts of the entire teaching (1233 G. and 930 G.).
The Cheyasuttas $51. Ayāradasão, abbreviated to Dasão, Skt. Daśāśrutaskandha. 10 dasā (Thān. 506a) 1. 20 precipitancies of temper (asamāhi-tthāna). 2. 21 offences against the vows (sabala). 3. 33 cases of disrespect (āsāyanā) on the part of the pupıl. 1.8