Jaina Bibliography Part 2

SR No.: 016036
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: A N Upadhye
Publisher: Veer Seva Mandir Trust
Publication Year: 1982
Total Pages: 900
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary & Dictionary
File Size: 15 MB

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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
work of literature in Tamil. The Sangam is referable to the earlier centuries of the
Christian Era.
P. 25. Bhakti arose as the answer to the agnostic cults of Buddhism and Jainism.
Kural of Tiruvalluvar-the term 'Kural' means 'short' and the work is so called bacause it consists of aphoristic couplets of four and three feet each.-As an ethico-religious work the Kural is intended as a guide for conduct in life. It deals. with three only of the "four objects of life" are righteousness (dharma) wealth (artha), love (Kama) and salvation (moksha). "If the first three objects of life are attained by adopting a moral life, the other follows inevitably in consequence. Hence the omis
sion of the fourth in this work.
P. 27. The early Pallava history and its chronology; A Digambra Jain work, Lokavibhaga-Simha Varman II began to rule in A.D. 436. During the whole history of the Pallavas from about A.D. 200 to nearly A.D. 900. Their power centered round Kanchi. The culture, they introduced, was Northern, and Sanskrit literature. was encouraged; they were great patrons of religion and art.
H. A. SHAH.-Pusyamitra-who is he? (A.I.O.C., Session III; 1924).
P. 382. "Pulaka established on throne his son (in Avanti) who ruled for 23 years and who was succeeded by Palaka". It therefore means that since the Bharat war, 848 (825 & 23) had gone when Palaka ascended. The year of Palaka is known well from the Jain Gathas.
See. I.A. Vol XV, p. 141 ff.
I.A. Vol. II, p. 362.
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The year of Palaka is O.A.M. therefore the Mahabharat war must have taken place about 848 years before Mahavir entered Nirvana.. The date of Chandra Gupta according to Hemachandra (Paribista Parva VIII, 339) is 155 A.M.
The result is Pushyamitra is an older contemporary of Chandragupta Maurya.