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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faina BIBLIOGRAĐHY
date of the “Kalpasūtra" is 980 of the era of Mahāvīra, that is to say 453 or 513 A.D.).
R. HOERNLE, “Uvāsagadasão” edited and translated.
2.
Historical and critical notes.
M. BARTH remains suspicious with regard to the Jaina tradition that characterises "a lack of true recollections associated with a profusion of details of a minute and certainly fictitious precision.” His scepticism is particularly keen as regards the first centuries of this tradition. However he recognised the ability of the works o Bühler on the inscriptions of Mathura. “The result from now onwards acquired from this beautiful country so vigorously conducted, he says, is a series of documents going from the year 80 upto the middle of the 2nd century of our era, and establishing in an unquestionable manner that, from this peiod, the Jaina church was perfectly distinct and organised.” Inspite of all, these researches are generally very far from confirming the Jain tradition.
(Compare Revue de l'Histoire des Religions "Vol. XX, P. 332, under the title : "M. Buhler et la tradition Jains”, a rectifying note of M. Barth, concerning the opinion of M. BÜHLER on the Jaina tradition,
3. Mention of other different works, among which : G. BÜHLER, "Uber das Leben des Jaina Monches Hemacandra;" H. JACOBI, "Ausgewahlte Erzahlugen in Maharashtri ; E. LEUMANN, "Beziehungen der Jaina-Literatur zu andern Literaturkreisen Indiens.”
VI-1894.
1. Review of the works of BÜHLER on the inscriptions of Mathura :
"From the mass of these inscriptions admirably interpreted by M. BÜHLER, it proceeds that, from the 1st century before our era, the Svetāmbara Jaina church was solidly organised...” But on several points, 'which are of capital importance for the first history of the Jainism, I have nothing to change to the stocks that I have made in the preceding Bulletin."
Mention of other inscriptions and of different pattavalis published by several scholars.
2. Svetāmbara canonical literature. E. LEUMANN, Daśavaikālika-sūtra und Niryukti. 3. Stories, History, Polemics.