Descriptive Catalogue Of Manuscripts Vol 18 Part 01

SR No.: 018124
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hiralal Rasikdas Kapadia
Publisher: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Publication Year: 1952
Total Pages: 540
Language: English
Classification: Catalogue & Catalogue
File Size: 31 MB

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Preface
ing right faith and deal with 'two ladders of liberation, forming an important section of the Jaina ?doctrine of evolution and involution.
Several works on the doctrine of kar man deal with the Jaina tenet of evolution and involution. This subject is treated at length in Jivasamasa. There are special works like Gunasthanakramaroha which solely and comprehensively deal with this subject. All these works, too, represent Jaina metaphysics.
The ethical literature consists of works dealing with right faith and "conduct of the Jaina laity and clergy. Holy sermons on the evanescent nature of sensuous objects and pleasures and their evil effects, if indulged in, form a big section of the Jaina ethical literature. Didactic poems and narratives such as Kumaravalapadibohna Samaräiccakaha, Upamitibhavaprapañcakatha, Prabodhacintämani etc. have an ethical end in view, though some of them belong to the narrative literature. Arhanniti ascribed to Hemacandra Suri deals with social ethics. Buddhisagara composed by Sangrama Süri in Sarhvat 1520 throws light on worldly transactions, conduct of rules etc.
On 6epistemology there are a few independent treatises. Amongst them Nanapañcagavakkhana (Jñanapañcakavyakhyana) of Haribhadra and Jñanabinduprakarana of Nyāyācārya Yaśovijaya Gani deserve special mention. These works are related with 7psychology, too.
1 Exposition of these two ladders is treated by me in my article "riga. siyahi Hara. It is to be published.
2 For a popular treatment see my article “ hafaat H" to be published in “ die 37177".
3 There are four works of this name. Of them one by Ratnasekhara Suri is widely known.
An Interpretation of Jain Ethics by Dr. Charlotte Krause is published in Y JGM in A, D, 1929.
Dr. Beni Prasad has written a pamphlet on “World Problems and Jain Etbics". It is published by "Jain Cultural Research Society", Benares.
* The Dootrine of Ahimsă in the Jaina Canon , & research paper of mine, is published in four instalments in the Journal of the University of Bombay in Arts Nos. 21-24.
5 Works dealing with caranakaranānuyoga represent this aspect,
6 An Epitome of Jainism by Nabar and Ghosh deals with epistemology and logio in ch. IV. Ch. XXVII has a heading" from metaphysics to ethics".
7 Jaina Psychology, a booklet by C. R. Jain is published in A. D. 1934 by the Jaina Parishad Publishing House, Bijgor.