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
Vyavahāra ganita, Kshetra-ganita and Lilavati Jaina writers continued to flourish under the later Hoysalas, and the lives of the Tīrthankaras formed their themes. Nemicandra wrote the Lilāyati, Ardha Nemi (Neminātha-purāna). Jaina, a poet and a minister and a builder of temples wrote the Yasodharacarila (1209), Anantanātha-purāna (1230). Bandhuvarma wrote the Harivamśābhyudaya and Jiva Sambodhana.
P. 380. Kumudendu (c.1275) wrote a Jain Rāmāyaṇa. In the age of Vijayanagar (1336-1650) the Jainas 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. Madhura (1385) wrote Dharmanatha-purāna, a short poem in praise of Gommateśvara of Śravana Belgo!a; Vritta Vilasa, author of Dharma-Parikshe and Šāstrasāra. The life of Jivandharaja was a favourite subject and was handled three times over by Bhāskara of Ponugonda (1424), Bommarasa of Terakaņāmbi (c. 1485) and Koteśvara of Tuluvadesa (c. 1500). Bāhubali of Sringeri (c. 1560) wrote the story of Nāgakumara.
P. 381 Jainism flourished in the Tuluva country more than anywhere else in this period when two colossal Jain statues were erected --one at Kārkal in 1431 and the other at Yenur in 1603. Accordingly we have four authors from that country. First was Abhinava Vādi Vidyānanda of Gersoppa; in 1533, he composed the Kārpasāra, an anthology, he gives the names of many of the poets of the period 900-1430. Sālva (c. 1550) produced a Jain version of the Bharata. Ratnākara-varni, a kshatriya of Mudabidire wrote Trilokasāra (1557) on cosmology; the Aparajita-Sataka on philosophy, morals and renunciation; the Bharateśvara-carila. Many songs by this author are known as Anngaļapada 'songs of the brothers'. Nemanna's Jñäna-bhāskara-carite (1559), exalts meditation. Ayata-varma wrote Ratnakarandaka, a Campu translated from Sanskrit, treats of 'the beliefs and duties of the Jains'.
P. 387. Important works of the early 17th century: Karnataka Sabdanušāsana (1601) of Bhattākalanka Deva, the most comprehensive grammar of Kannada. The re-consecration of the Gommata statue at Sravana Belgoļa in 1612 was described by poet Pancabāņa of that town in his Bhujabalicarite (1614). The Kārkala image was rededicated in 1646 and its history and that of Gommata from the subject of KarkalaGommatesvara carita of Chandrama of the Tuluva country. Bijjala-rāya-caritra, giving the Jain version of Basava's life at Kalyāna and fina-munitanaya on Jain morals are other works of the period.
Pp. 419-20. Jainism :
Jainism had more influence than Buddhism on the life of the people, particularly in Karnataka and in the Tamil country owing to the striking contributions made