History of Jaina Monachism

Author(s): S B Deo
Publisher: Deccan College Research Institute

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HISTORY OF JAINA MONACHISM
15 JACOBI,16 LEUMANN, 17 HOERNLE,18 and CHARPENTIER19 contributed their intellectual mite in this effort. Indian scholars like VIJAYADHARMASURI, VIJAYANANDASURI, Muni JINAVIJAYA, Shri K. P. MODI, Drs. P. L. VAIDYA, A. N. UPADHYE, Babu Kamta Prasad JAIN, C. R. JAIN, Prof. KAPADIA, Dr. Hiralal JAIN, Pandit Nathu Ram PREMI and others have also contributed their due share in the advancement of Jaina research.
Along with these scholars, so many Digambara and Svetambara institutions have come forward for the publication of the canonical and the noncanonical texts. The Jaina Bhāndaras have also, of late, brought out their mss. wealth to some extent. Mss., Epigraphy and Pattāvalis :
In the field of manuscripts, pattāvalis (lists of succession in Church hierarchy), and epigraphy also, voluminous material has come to light.
Reports and catalogues of manuscripts by BÜHLER,20 KIELHORN,21 PETERSON,22 BHANDARKAR,23 KEITH,24 Rai Bahadur HIRALAL,25 VELANKAR26 and others have made a considerable addition to our knowledge.
Hundreds of Jaina inscriptions were brought to light by Journals like The Epigraphia Indica, Epigraphia Carnatica, Indian Antiquary, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, South Indian Inscriptions, Jaina Antiquary and annual Reports of the Archaeological Survey of India. These and others have been embodied in separate monographs by GUERINOT,27 NAHAR,28 Muni JINAVIJAYA,29 and by scholars like RICE, HULTZCH, KIELHORN, FERGUSSON, BURGESS, FLEET and others. Evaluation of Literary and Epigraphical Sources:
A proper evaluation and selection of material out of this mass of literary and epigraphical sources is needed to build up a somewhat connected
16. Kalpasūtra 1879; Acaranga, Sūtraktänga, Kalpasūtra and Uttaradhyayana in SBE, Vol.: XXII, XLV, 1884.
17. Aupapātika 1883. 18. Uvasagadasão 1884. 19. Uttaradhyayana 1921. 20. Rep. in search of Skt. Mss. : 1869-82. 21. Do.--years: 1869-82. 22. Do--years: 1886-92, London 1894. 23. Do.-years 1882-97. 24. Do.--year 1911. 25. Do. Nagpur 1926. 26. Do. BBRAS., 1930. 27. Reportaire d'Epigraphie Jaina 1908. 28. Jaina Lekha Sangraha, 3 Vols. 1918. 29. Pracina Jaina Lekha Sangraha, Bhāvanagar.