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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Pp. 277-8. The first authentic notices of the Jains occur in the ninth volume of the Asiatic Researches from the pen of Colonel MACKENZIE, Dr. BUCHAMEN and Mr. COLEBROOKE. Some account of the Jain occurs in Colonel Wilk's Historical Sketch of South India. BUCHANAN's travels in Mysore and in the work of Abbi DuBois. WARDS has an article on Jain in his account of the Hindus. Mr. ERSKINE noted some of their peculiarities in his observations on the cave of elephant and in the remains of Bauddhas in India in the proceedings of the Bombay Literary Society. Latest and most detailed account is found in the papers of Mr. COLEBROOKE, Major DELAMAINE, Dr. HAMILTON, Colonel FRENKLIN and Major Tod in the transaction of the Royal Asiatic Society. Some voluable informations are to be found in the Calcutta quarterly magazine. Particularly in the Journal of a Native traveller from Calcutta and back again through Behar. A novel and comprehensive view of Jain literature is contained in the catalogue of manuscripts collected by the Late Colonel MACKENZIE.
P. 279. Enurneration of the Jain Parāṇas.
P. 278 fn 1. A list of the works by different Western scholars whose contributions on Jaiua topics be inade there.
P. 278 fn 4. List of 44 works comprising purānas, charitras or legends, Ritual prāyascitta, Medicine, Grammar, Arithmetic, miscellaneous.
P. 279 fn 1. Hamilton's account of the 24 Puranas contradicted.
P. 281 fn 1. Enumeration of the siddhāntas and Agamas of the Jainas.
P. 282. Hemacandra, author of Abhidhānacintāmaņi is a zealous and able Propagator of the Jain doctrines in the 12th century.
1648
H. H. WHISON-Essays and Lectures on the Religion of the Hindus. Collected and edited by R. Rost. In two volumes. London, 1861-1862.
Vol. I. Sketch on the religious sects of the Hindus. (Memorie original. Asiatic Researches, Vol. XVI, Pp. 1-136, and Vol. XVII, Pp. 169-314).
Pp. 5-7. Buddhists and Jains in comparison with the Brahmanical religion: contempt of the Vedas and of the religious practices. Brahmanical persecution to which the Buddhists succumbed, but to which the Jains outlived.