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. 165. Kusana Pulity : The earliest epigraphic mention of the title maharaja is to be found in the first century B.C. Häthig umphā inscription of Khāravela, where his ancestor Mahā-meghavāhana is described as mahārāja.
P. 166. Jain text : Kalakacharyakathānaka, which seems to contain genuine traditions about the first appearance of Saka in India, uses the prakritised form rāyāhirāya in the case of Saka śāhi ; also prakritised form sahānusāhi.
P. 167. Kālaka story given.
P. 171. Gramika, mentioned in a Mathura Jain inscription of the time of Vasudeva (Luders' list No. 69a) another Jain votive image epigraph from Mathura mentions two generations of a local grāmika (Luders' List No. 48).
P. 181. Kusanas never adopted policy of religious persecution. Under their rule Mathura, an important centre of Jainism in the reign of Kaniska and Huviska.
P. 186. Chandragupta Maurya, according to the Jain tradition, was the son of a peacock'tamer (the different views regarding the caste of the Mauryas have been summarised by K.C. Ojha in "Original Home and The Family of the Mauryas" in the Journal of the Ganganath Jha Research Institute, Vol. IX. 1951).
P. 188. According to early Jain text, besides the Ksatriyas, the brahmanas also filled the office of the senāpati and yodhajivas (warriors).
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P. 190. Early Jain sources inform that members of the Srotriya brāhmaṇas were occassionally employed as dūtas.
P. 193. Jain sources inform that there was a parisa (as assembly) of the gāhāvais (i.e., Vaisya and šūdras).
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Pp. 86-87. The Ajivika sect-the Buddhist and Jain traditions are not unanimous in regard to the name Makkhali Gosāla--the Jain scriptures refer to the Ājivika teacher as Gosāla Mankhaliputta.