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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Jataka-tilaka, a poetical work on astrology written in 1049 A.D., by a Jain Siddhāchārya in the time of Ahavamalla, and Aryabhatta is mentioned as his predecessor in this work.
Nāgachandra or Abhinavapampa was a well known Jain poet, he was a disciple of Balachandramuni. He buit Mallinātha Jinālaya, the name of a famous tirthankara in Vijayapura, probably Bijapur, his supposed birthplace. His date is 1105.
P. 110. Karnāțakakalyana Karaka, a medical work ( 12th Cent.) written by a Jain, Somanatha.
Pp. 115-116. The Jains resorted to a peculiar mode of self-destruction consistently with their chief tenet. It was death by starvation or sallekhana. For days on end without food or water, men and women devoted themselves to the contemplation of the divinity till death was brought about.
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D. R. BHANDARKAR-Lectures on the Ancient History of India on the period from 650 to 325 B.C. Calcutta, 1919 (The Carmichael Lectures, 1918).
P. 78. The Jain Nirayāvali-Sutra informs us that Ajātaśatru fixed a quarrel on Chetaka, a Lichchhavi Chief of Vesali.
Pp. 146-147. Ayaramga-Sutta, a well-known Jain Canonical work, names such countries as a-raya (i.e., where there is no ruler), juvarāya (where the ruler is a youngester), do-rajja (Government by two), and also gana-raya (where Oana is the ruling authority), which the Jain religious Brotherhood is ordained to avoid.
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H. B. BHIDE--Is Kalkirāja an Historical Personage? (IA, xlviii, 1919, Pp. 123-130). Pp. 123, 128. Unreality of Jain writers regarding Kalkirāja. Pp. 128-130. Hemchandra's account of Kalkirāja.
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Haraprasad SASTRI—Contributions of Bengal to Hindu Civilization. (JBORS, 1919, Pp. 307-324).
Pp. 314-316. Jainism, Buddhism, Ājivakism and all the religions receiving from the Buddhism the appellation of "Tairthikias" or the Heretical systems were founded upon the customs, usages, morals and religious opinions prevalent in ancient times in Bengal and Magadha and among the people known as the Chera.