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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P. 384. Chāvundrāya, composed the Cavundarāyapurāņa (978) or Trishashțilakshanna-mahāpurāņa. Nāgavarma I, another protege of Chāvundarāya and a pupil of Ajitasena ; his Chandonbudhi (Ocean of prosody) an earliest work on the subject in Kannada.
Sridharācārya, a Jain Brahmin, his scientific writing (Šāstrakavita)-Jätakalilaka (1049), the earliest work on astrology in Kannada and belles-lettere (Kavya Kavita) ---Candraprabhacarite no longer extant.
P. 385. Nāgachandra (C. 1105) who built the Mallinātha Jinalaya at Bijapur, wrote the Mallināthapuräņa ; his Ramacandra-Caritapurāņa ; his title Abhinava (new) Pampa. To the first quarter of the twelfth century belong also to a Jain polenic Samayaparikshe of Brahmaśiva (Superiority of Jainism over all other creeds) and the Govaidya of Kirttivarama a work on Veterinary Science. Round about 1145, Karnapra wrote his Neminätha-puräņa. To the same time belongs Nāgavarma II, the author of Kaufāvalokana, a work on the grammar and rahetoric of Kannada. Another work of-Nāgavarma on grammar is the Karnataka-bhaşābhushana. The Vastukoša, a third work of Nägavarama II, is a lexicon giving Kannada equivalents of Sanskrit terms. Nägavarma was Katakopadhyāya (camp-teacher) under Jagadekamalli II, whom he survived, became the teacher of poet Janna (C. 1209). A work on medicine, Pujya päda's Kalyana-Karaka translated from Sanskrit into Kannada by a Jain author Jagaddala Somanātha (about C. 1150). Rājāditya (1190) a Tain of Purinabage reduced to easy verse the mathematical subjects he dealt with in several ganita works.
P. 386. Jain writers continued to flourish under the later Hoysalas, and the lives of the Tirthankaras formed the theme of many Purāna with form of campus. Nemichandra court poet under Vira Ballala, wrote the Lilavati, a plain romance. He undertook to write the Nerninathapurana, at the instance of Ballala's Minister, but died before completing it, and the work came to be known as Ardha Nemi. Tanna not only a poet but a minister and a builder of temples ; he wrote the rasodharacarite (1209) ; his Annantanāthapurāņa (1230). Bandhuvarama a Vaisya, wrote the HarivanSabhyudaya and Ftva-Sambodhana (on morals and renunciation). Mallikarjuna (an ascetic) (C. 1245), a brother-in-law of Jaina compiled an anthology (Sūkti-Sudhainaava).
P. 337. Kumudendil (C. 1275) wrote a Ramayana Punyäsarva (C. 1331) of Nāgarāja. In the age of Vijayanagar (1336—1650) the Jains were being steadily pushed out by the rising influence of Saivas and Vaishnavas; yet they continued to write in Kannada on the lives of Tirthankaras and other holy persons. Madhura (1385), patronized by Ministers of Harihara II and Devarāya I, wrote Dharmanath purāna. Vritta Vilāsa, author of Dharmaparikshe, a Kannada version of a Sanskrit
Saivas and Vaishnawans were being stead;
nada on the lives of