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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(A.D. 783) and writers like Bopadeva or Hemachandra refer to Devanandi, otherwise known as Pajyapada, as the author of this grammar.
P. 63, n. 1. Sutrapatha of the Jainendra grammar originally belonged to the Digambara Jain from whom the Svetämbaras borrowed it.
Pp. 64. Date of the Jainendra Vyakarana-Foundation of this school dates from about the same time as that of the Chandra-Prof. PATHAK's paper on the Jain Sakatayana (Ind. Ant. Oct. 1914) gives evidence to assign the Vyakarana to the latter part of the 5th century A.D.
P. 65. Character of the Jainendra Vyakarana-There are two versions in which the Jainendra Grammar has come down to us-Altogether wanting in originality.
Pp. 66-68. Later history of the grammar since the 13th century very little is known-It draws a solitary student here and there amongst the Digambara Jains, especially of Southern India.
Pp. 73-81. The Hemachandra School-Life of Hemachandra-Nature of Hemachandra's Sabdanukasana-Treatises accessory to Sabdanulasana-Commentary on Sabdanulasana-Digest and manuals and other miscellaneous works-Conclusion,
P. 98. From the prasasti given at the end of Chandrakirti's commentary on the Sarasvata Prakriya we learn that the author was a Jain belonging to the brihad gachchha of Nagpur, residing in a Jain tirtha, called Kanțika, and 15th in succession from the founder of the gachchha, Deva Süri (Sam. 1174).
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L. P. TESSITORI-Notes on the Grammars of the Old Western Rajasthani with special reference to Apabhramŝa and to Gujarati and Marwari, (IA, xlv, 1916. Pp. 93-99).
P. 97. Jain ascetics live like the bees. (Published in I.A. vols. XLIII-xlv, 1914-16, and also published as a reprint from the British India Press, Mazgaon, Bombay in the year 1916).
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Alfred C, WOOLNER-Introduction to Prakrit. Lahore, 1917.
The work contains specimens of Jain Mähäräṣṭri. (Second ed. published by the University of the Panjab, Lahore, 1928).