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
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(A.I.O.C., Session
III;
R. C. MAJUMDAR :- Indian Colonisation in the Far East. 1924).
P. 341. Jain and Buddhist stories about the voyage of merchants from Campa to Suvannabhūmi......
...... In the fifth century A.D. a king of Campa called Gangarāja abdicated the throne and went over to India in order to spend his last days on the banks of the Ganges.
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R Shama SHASTRY.--The Epoch of Kuna Pānd ya, Tirujnanasambandhar and Tirumanghayalvar-(A.I.O.C., Session III; 1924).
P. 223. Kunapāndya became Jain in his youth and disregarded Saivism of his ancestors, Jinsen, referred to fix the date of the king Jinasena completed his Harivamsa in a.d. 783... Guņabhadra was the student of Jinasena.
The statement niade in the Rājaválikatha that Jinasena, Gunabhadra and Govinda were contemporaries is also corroborated by the Prabhāvakacharita... Bhattākālanka referred to by Jainasena (Mahapurāna Parva I. 53) "The merits of Bhattakālanka, Śripal, and Pātrakesari (Vidyananda) prove when kept at heart of necklace of pearls".
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III;
S. V. VENKATESWARA.-India in the Second Century B.C. (A.I.O.C., Session 1924).
P. 407 ff. At the dawn of the Second century B.C. we have the undoubted face of the decline of the Maurya empire... Western Hindustan was the stronghold of Jainism...
After Asoka we hear only of Samprati whom Jain traditions agree in considering as ruler of Western Hindustan and of Dasarath who dedicated caves to the Ājivikas as known from three inscriptions on the Nāgārjun Hill.
...List of Western Emperors can be thus made up. Samprati's rules at Ujjain is proved by Jain traditions preserved in inscriptions of later ages.