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
V. R. DEORAS-Fresh light on the Southern compaigns of the Rashtrakuta emperor Krishna III, (Proc., IHC. XXth Session), Bombay, 1958.
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P. 133. Indranandhi's Jualamālinīkalpa completed at Manyakheta in the Saka year 861, i.e. A.D. 939, refers to Krishnaraja as the reigning sovereign,
P. 135. Pushpadanta in his Mahapuraṇa records that in the course of his travels he reached Melpati, where king Tudiga i.e. Krishna III was staying after having cut off the head of the Chola king.
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P. 138. Somadeva's Yasastilaka was composed in Saka 881 (A.D. 959) while Krishna was reigning at Melpati after having subdued the Pandya, Simhala, Chola, Cherama and other kings Yasastilaka, vol. II, p. 419).
1962.
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Jack LINDSAY-A short History of Culture From prehistory to the Renaissance, London,
world.
P. 90. The careers of the Buddha, Vardhamana, Zorasthustra, John the Baptist, Jesus, Mohammed, Main and we may add Orpheus and Pythagoras-all show strong shamanist characteristics.
The Shaman feels strongly his role as mediator between men and the spirit
Pp. 197-98. The use of ascetic techniques to gain control of the body is central; and the three main expressions come in Jainism, Buddhism and Bakhti.
Jainism accepted nothing less than total escape from the chain, and venerated a small group of noble selves who had escaped into perfection.
Jainism founded by Vardhamana, born about 569 B.a., an ascetic who gathered the usual marvellous tales of birth, childhood and initiation. The Jains have carried ahimsa or non-violence towards all creatures to an extreme, e.g., they filter their breath with respirators so as not to swallow living organisms. They have survived as a minority sect; like the Quakers in 18th century England they have played a leading part in banking, and in parts, Bengal and Assam, hold almost a monopoly of retail trade. There is a certain bitter irony in the way in which quietest sects, especially when persecuted, seek to heap up treasure in heaven, and by their extremely abstinent lives end by heaping up treasure on earth and playing a leading role in money accumulation.