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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Jyoti Prasad Jain-Some more aliases of Kundakund (Jain. Ant. Vol. XIII, No.I), Arrah, 1947. Pp. 19 to 23. (First half of the 1st century A. D.)
Achārya Kundkund is known to have many aliases --Padmanandi, Vakragriva Elächārya and Gridhapiccha. His other known aliases are --Vattakerāchārya, Vattkeryāchārya, Vatterakāchārya and also Pravartakācharya.
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Gyanchandra JAIN-Täran Swami and his sect, (Jain Ant., vol XII, No. I), Arrah, 1947. Pp. 59 to 61.
Founder of the Tāran Panth, Tāran Swāmi was a Jain philosopher reformer flourishing in India in the 15th century and a contemporary to Sant Kabir, Guru Nānak and other cosmopolitan reformers of medieval India. Born in the year 1448 at Ruhupawati which is near Delhi, he preached against idolatry travelling over the whole of India and was respected by both Hindus and Muslims. The followers of Tāran Swāmi are found all over the country specially in the Central Provinces and Berar, Central India, United Provinces, Bengal and Bombay and are about forty thousand in number. They are divided into six sects namely, the Charnāgaras, the Samayas, the Asaithis, the Ayodhyāwāsis, the Golapurabs, and the Dosakes. Wrote 14 books in the Apabhramba language. Names of his works given. Sacred places connected with the name of Tāran Swāmi-Shree Nisaijee near the fort of Malhargarh in the Gwalior State; Shree Semerkhedi in the Sironi Tahsil of the Tonk in Central India; Shree Sukhajee in the Damoh sub-division of the Central Provinces and Berar.
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D. G. MAHAJAN-Acharya Samantabhadra and Patliputra. (Jain. Ant., Vol. XIV, No. I), Arrah, 1948, pp. 36 to 45.
The great Jain Achārya Samantabhadra's name has been associated with Pāțaliputra for he visited this place which has been located in modern Patnā in about the 2nd century A.D. Āchārya Samantabhadra might have visited Pataliputra in Tamil land, the ancient Thondaimandalan-South India. Kānchipuram was a centre of learning in the north of the country. Thondayamandalam, with Pāțaliputra in the centre and Madura in the Southern part of the Tamilanādu.