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AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF JAINISM candra, by separating the historical from the legendary1. According to that there is no doubt that starting from s. 1216 Kumārapāla "tried to make Gujarat in some manner a Jain model state” and forced his subjects to go far in putting into practice the ahımsā, etc , acc to his example. At the same time Hemacandra by his versatile scientific work established the basis for a typical Jain cultures. But even Kumārapāla did not leave off favouring the Saivas with whom up to then he had been intimately connected, so that after his death they again won the upperhand. Finally there is the belief in being able to call the Emperor Akbar a Svetāmbara Jain. He requested them to send him Hiravijaya (1526,7-1595), an Ācārya from the Tapā-Gaccha ($ 34). He, the so-called jagad-guru spent some years at the court of Delhi. After his departure in 1584 Sānticandra, Bhānucandra and Vijayasena were successively active in the same direction of making Akbar familiar with the Dharma. As is known Akbar was not converted (prabodhita), but similarly to Asoka under Buddhist, so he under Jain influence edited some regionally and temporarily limited prohibitions in accordance with their teaching®.
$29. The successes previously mentioned mostly go back to the outward reputaion of the Jain Order, which again goes back to the number and the importance of its adherents, whereas its publicity explains itself by the substance of the doctrine. Since about 80 A.D 4 when a pseudo-Bhadrabāhu (§ 43) first came to put the traditional text comment into shape, the Śvet., for centuries, have tried hard for this substance, although, as was said, mostly in the pale of the community. It is true, the investigations into the details of this intellectual acomplishment started by LEUMANN remained stuck in their first stages in public (§ 4), but yet they allow us to realize the comprehensive
1. On the Life of the Jain Monk Hemacandra (Vienna 1889, transl by Mani Lal PATEL, Singhi Series 1 For the following comp p 39 41f 5i Rev by LEUMANN ZDMG 43, 348-352
2 Acc to JACOBI, Par (2nd ed )p XXIII this effort tended to the very details of versification
3 V A SMITH, Festschr Bhandarkar, p 265-276, the SAME, Akbar, the Great Mogul, p 47 ff
4. LEUMANN, Obersicht p 28b.
| SR No. | 011097 |
| Book Title | Doctrine of Jainas |
| 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 |