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
P. 126. The proto-Jainas who followed Päriva, took, no vows of chastity (HORNLE ERE. i, p. 264 being his view on Uttaradhyayana Sutra XXIII, II ff). Their monks were not always strict in maintaining chastity (Satra Kritanga iv, 2 and JAINLife in Ancient India According to the Jaina Canon Pp. 199-202).
P. 132. Buddhaghosa's Dhammapad-attha-katha, i, pp. 390 ff. mentions naggasamana, accelaka and ajtika ascetics,
Pp. 138-141. Relations between Ajtvikas and Jainas; Ajivikas and Jainas. were originally on good terms and indeed closely related; the near relationship of the two sects is confirmed by the Buddhist tradition. The frequent confusion of terms Nirgrantha and Ajwika in the Buddhist texts also points in the same direction; similarities in the practice and doctrine.
Pp. 158-59. The hill of Barabar, called Khalatika in the Asokan inscription was known in the time of Anantavarman as Pravaragiri. It also had another name Gorathagiri and Goradhagiri. Dr. A. BANERJI SASTRI (JBORS, Xii; p. 60) suggests that Kharavela an earnest Jaina, was responsible for the expulsion of the AjIvikas from these caves (Barabar), the mutilation of the inscriptions of Asoka and Dasaratha, and the carving of the facade of the Lomas Rși cave.
P. 159. JAYASWAL places Kharavela in the first half of the second century n.c.; the latter half of the first century B.C. is the date now usually favoured for the Kharavela inscription.
P. 160. In the third century A.D. Jainism was widespread.
P. 163. Description of nagna ascetic (Nirgranthas) in the Vayu Purāṇa p. 78, verse 30.
P. 165 Lalita Vistara (ed. LEPMANN, Vol. I, p. 380) mentions Nirgranthas.
P. 167. The Digambara Jaina ascetic also carried a staff; Kṣapaṇakas-Jaina ascetics in Pañcatantra.
P. 168. Mention of nagnataka or naked ascetic (Digambara) Jain monk in the Hartacarita.
Varähamihira's Brahajjataka (for astrological purpose) mentions seven types of ascetics, with the heavenly bodies under whose influence they are born-6th is defined by Utpala or Bhattopala (the tenth century commentator) as-Nirgranthas -the member of whom is a naked ascetic without a robe, etc., (Nagnaḥ Kepanakah pravaran' adi-rahitaḥ). Utpala quotes Kalakacharya of the fifth century--ascetic Kṣapanaka born under Saturn.