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AGAMA AURA TRIPITAKA: EKA ANUSILANA A COMPARATIVE STUDY (A Critical Study of the Jaina and the Buddhist Canonical Literature) VOL. :1: HISTORY & TRADITION by Muni Sri Nagrajji, D. Litt. A Review by : Dr. Pt. Sukhalalji English Version by Muni Sri Mahendra Kumarji & K.C. Lalvani Edited by Dr. Bhupendra Swarup Jain and Dr. Raghunatha Sarma Shri Nagarajji's present work “Agama aur Tripitaka : Eka Anusilana (English Version) is an exhaustive study of the Agama, also known as Ganipitaka of the Jainas and the Tripitaka of the Buddhists, putting together some common topics on which our attention is being focussed. Buddha and Mahavira have been great contemporaries; and as the Tripitaka reveals, there were other teachers in that age such as Purna, Kasyapa, Makkhali, Gosala, Ajitakesa Kambala, Prakudha Katyayana and Samajayabelattha Putra. The Jain canon also gives a few details about them. Gosala was a remarkable saint of that age but, unluckily, bis doctrines have not come down to us by themselves. We do not posses any scriptures of the Ajivaka system: all that we know about it, is from the Jaina and Buddhist sources. Muni Shri Nagarajji gives exhaustive details about teaching these tenants. It is well-known that there is plenty of disparity evidence and conflicting traditional information as well as a plethora of controversy amongst scholars about the dates of the Nirvana of Buddha and Mahavira. Shri Nagarajji has surveyed, in this respect, all the accessible material and different traditions, duly specifying the sources etc., and his conclusion that Mahavira attained Nirvana in 527 B.C. and Buddha in 502 B.C. seems quite consistent in itself. Then he presents the lives of Mahavira and Buddha in their various aspects and in exhaustive details. Biographies of their eminent pupils are succinctly given and quite welcome light is shed on contemporary kings like srenika Bimbisara, Kunika, Chanda Pradyota, Pra senajit, Chetaka and others. He has significantly reviewed important topics, doctrines as well as moral connected with Jainism and Buddhism as available in the canons.
1986, 24cm, 900 pages
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