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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R. D. BANERJEE-Prehistoric Ancient and Hindu India. Calcutta, 1948-(Reprinted).
Pp. 51-57. Jainism its origin and development. Päriva the predecessor of Mahavira lived in the eighth century B.C. He taught the four supreme commands: (1) not to injure life, (2) not to tell lies, (3) not to steal, and (4) not to possess any
property.
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Mahavira added a fifth, chastity. Päráva allowed robes but Mahävira enjoined complete nudity.
P. 54. Family of Vardhamana; legends about his birth; mendicant life of Vardhamana.
P. 55. Vardhamäna as teacher; relation between Jainism and Buddhism; rivalaries between the Ajivikas and the Jains.
P. 56. Nandas were Jains; Udayin the last king of the Saisunaga dynasty was a staunch Jain. Buddhism failed to become a popular religion till its advocacy by Asoka. The Maurya emperors were Jains; cause of the Schism-the Digambaras and the Svetämbaras.
P. 57. Samprati, a grandson of Asoka, a patron of Jain The Svetämbara sect confined to Rajputana and Western India while Bengal, South Bihar, Chotanagpur, and the whole of central India, Maharashtra, and southern India contained thousands of the Digambaras; Jain Sarākas (Śravakas) in Orissa.
P. 62. Buddha's teaching simpler than Jaina's.
Bimbisara married Chellana, the daughter of the Lichchhavi prince Chetaka and first cousin of Mahavira Vardhamana.
P. 69. Even after the formation of New Rajagriha, the holy places inside. the old Rajagriha continued to be visited by pilgrims both Jain and Buddhist, upto the twelfth century A.D.
P. 72. Reference of the Nands in the Hathigumphä inscription of Khâravela -excavation of a canal by a Nanda King in the year one hundred and three of the era of the Nandas; who also brought away an image of a Jina from Kalinga.
P. 90. Chandragupta Maurya was a Jain, died after a reign of twenty-four years, C. 297 B.C.