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## Jain Puranas: A List
**22**
30. Parsva Purana
31. Maha Purana
32. Maha Purana (Adi Purana, Uttar Purana) Apabhramsha
33. Mallinatha Purana (Kannada)
34. Purana Sara
35. Mahavira Purana
36. Mahavira Purana
37. Mallinatha Purana
38. Munisuvrata Purana
36.
37
40. Vagarth Sangrah Purana
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11
11
17
11
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Adi Purana
Vadichandra
Acharya Mallisena
Mahakavi Pushpadanta
(Apabhramsha) ,,) )
"1
Kavi Nagachandra Shrichand
Kavi Asag B. Sakal Kirti
37
41. Shantinatha Purana
42.
43. Shri Purana
44. Harivansha Purana
45. Harivansha Purana (Apabhramsha)
46.
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47.
48.
46.
50.
1671
51.
52.
Composed before 1560
In addition to these, there are numerous character narratives in Sanskrit, Prakrit and Apabhramsha languages, exceeding the number of Puranas. These include significant works like 'Varangacharita', 'Jinadattacharita', 'Jashar Chariu', 'Nayakumar Chariu' and many more.
Brahma Krishnadas
B. Surendrakirti Kavi Paramesthi
Kavi Asag
B. Shribhushan
B. Gunabhadra
Punnat Sanghiya Jinsen
Swayambhudev Chaturmukhadev B. Jindas
B. Yash Kirti
B. Shruta Kirti
1658
1104
10th Century CE
Kavi Raidhū
B. Dharma Kirti Kavi Ramchandra
11th Century CE
11th Century CE -
610
15th Century
"
17th Century CE
18th Century CE
Preceding the Maha Purana of Acharya Jinsen
10th Century
1656
15th-16th Century CE
Shaka Samvat 705
8th Century CE
8th Century CE or earlier
15th-16th Century
1507
1552
15th-16th Century
This list of Purana texts was kindly provided by our fellow scholar, Pandit Paramanandji Shastri, Sarsawa. We are grateful to him for this.
Maha Purana
The Maha Purana has two parts: the first is Adi Purana or Purva Purana and the second is Uttar Purana. The Adi Purana is complete in 47 chapters, of which 42 chapters are complete and 3 verses of the 43rd chapter were composed by Bhagavan Jinsenacharya. The remaining 5 chapters and the Uttar Purana were composed by Shri Gunabhadracharya, the chief disciple of Shri Jinsenacharya.
1. The columns 'Sanskrit', 'Prakrit' and 'Purana' have been aided by Pandit Sitaram Jayaram Joshi MA and Pandit Vishwanath Shastri Bhardwaj MA's 'A Concise History of Sanskrit Literature'.