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Nalini Balbir
CNRS. ERA 094 “PHILOLOGIE BOUDDHIQUE ET JAINA” (Paris). Abbreviations
I indicates a close correspondence between two verses or two passages. † different from * after a number indicates a verse in a work where prose and verses are
mixed. Di.- Digambara; F. T(3) = Future Tirthamkara(s), i. e. of the utsarpini; gā. = gāthā; intr.= introduction; Pk. = Prakrit; Pravac=Pravacanasārod - dhāra,(cf. 1.1.2); PrPN=Prakrit Proper Names, vol. I-II; Ahmedabad, 1970-72 (L. D. Series 28;37); Sa.=Sanskrit; Samay - Samavāyanga (4th Amga); Śvet. = Svetāmbara; Ts=the 24 Tirthamkaras from Rşabha to Mahävira; T = ţikā; Sanskrit commentary; Thàn=Thâņamga (3rd Amga); Tnk - Tirthamkara-nāma-karman; v. = verse(s). Book series : DLJP=Devacand Lālbhāi-Jaina-Pustakoddhāra, Bombay. MDJG=Māņikchanda. Digambara-Jaina-Grantha-Mālā, Bombay. SI or S II=Suttagame ed. of the Jaina Canon, Gurgaon, 1953-54, vols. I-II; with page and line number. P. S. Jaini, The Jaina Path of Purification, Delhi, Varanasi, Patna, 1979, p. 30-31; W. Schubring, The Doctrine of the Jainas, Delhi, 1962, p. 18; Haribhadra, Avaš yakatika, ed, Bombay, 1916, p. 333a-b E. Leumann, Ubersicht über die Avaš yaka-Literature (...) Hamburg, 1934, p. 43b-44a; A. Mette, Indische Kulturstiftungsberichte und ihr Verhältnis zur Zeitaltersage, Wiesbaden, 1973 (Ak. der Wiss, u. der Lit. Mainz) : "die Dekadenz-und die Aszendenz-Theorie” in Greek and Indian Cosmologies (p. 3); p. 7 and n. 19 on the Jaina standpoint. E. g. in the German school : 1858, A. Weber, Uber das Catrunjaya Mahat. myam, Leipzig (Abh. für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 1,4); 1888, R. Fick, Eine jainistische Bearbeitung der Sagara-Sage, Kiel; 1914, 1921, H. Jacobi's eds. of Vimalasūri, Paumacariya (Prakrit Text Series 7ff.), of Haribhadra, Sanatkumāra and Nemināha-cariya; 1936, L. Alsdorf, Harivams apurana. Ein Abschnitt aus der Apabhramba-Welthistorie “Mahāpuräna Tisatthimahāpurisacariya. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Jaina. Universalgeschichte, Hamburg (Alt-u. Neu-Indische Studien 8); etc. It is often not even mentioned in the basic books e.g. J. C. Jain, Life in Ancient India as depicted in the Jain Canons, Bombay, 1947, p. 371; etc. However, a special mention must be made of H. von Glasenapp, Der Jainismus (...) nach den Quellen dargestellt, Berlin, 1925, repr, 1964, p. 307-310: “Die zukünftige Weltperiode und ihre Heiligen", and of Ch. Krause, Ancient Jaina Hymns, Ujjain, 1952 (Scindia Oriental Series 2), Intr., p. 15–16. A Dig. and a Svet. list of F. Ts following Hemacandra, are already found in C. Mackenzie, Account of the Jains, p. 261.
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