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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north where now Marathi is the spoken language. Śrivardhadeva, also called Tumbulurācārya from the place of his birth; his Cudamani, a commentary on the Tattvarthamahasastra, in 9,60,000 verses. Another writer of this early period (c. 650) was Śyāmakundācārya. Both these ācāryas like most early Kannada writers, were
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Jaina.
P. 376. Pampa-his two great poems Adipurāņa and Vikramarjuna Vijaya; Pampa's Junior contemporary was Ponna whose principal work is the Santipurana. He wrote also the Jinaksharamala, an acrostic poem in the praise of the Jinas.
Ranna, who, with Pampa and Ponna, completes 'the Three Gems' who usher in Kannada literature in full panoply, adorned the court of the Chalukya king Tailapa II and his successor. Born in 949 he rose to the rank of Kavicakravarti. His Ajitapuran (993), the Sahasabhima-Vijaya or Gadayuddha (982); Paraluramacarita and Cakresuara-carita (no longer extant); and a lexicon Ranna Kanda.
Chavandaraya, one of Ranna's early patrons, was a feadatory of Ganga Racamalla IV, who conferred on him the title Raya for his colossus of Gommatesvarahe composed in 978 the Chamundaraya-puraṇa, the earliest extant prose work in Kannada treating of the legends of 24 Tirthankaras, 12 Cakravartis, 9 Balabhadras; 9 Nārāyaṇas and 9 Partinarayanas, 63 in all. Nagavarma I, a pupil of Ajitasena, his Chandombudhi, 'Ocean of prosody' is the earliest work on the subject in Kannada.
P. 378. Śridharācārya, a Jain Brahmin showed his capacity for scientific writing (Sastra-Kavitva) in his Jataka-tilaka (1049), the earlist work on astrology in Kannada, and his capacity in belles letters (Kävya Kavitva) in his Candraprabhacarita, no longer extant. The Jain Nagavarmācārya, patronized by Ganga Udayaditya (1070), a feudatory of Someśvara II, at Bonavase, was the author of Candra cüḍāmaṇiŝataka on the ethics of renunciation.
P. 378. The next great writer was Nagachandra (c.1105), who built the Mallinätha Jinalaya at Bijapur, and wrote the Mallinathapurana, a Campa. But he is best known for his Ramacandracaritapuräna. To the first quarter of the twelfth century belong a Jain polemic Samayaparikshe of Brahmasiva which seeks to establish the superiority of Jainism over all other creeds. About 1145 Karnaparya wrote Neminathapurana.
A work on medicine, Pujyapada's Kalyaṇakāraka, was translated from Sanskrit into Kannada by a Jaina author Jagaddala Somanatha.
P. 379. Räjäditya (1190), a Jain of Pūvinabage, showed great skill in reducing to easy verse the mathematical subjects he dealt with in several ganita works like