Jain Digest 1988 08 Vol 13 No 07

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

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Title:
BHAVANA BODH
Publisher: Shrimad Rajchandra Ashram, Boria
388130,Gujrat, India.
This book originally written in Gujarati by Shrimad Rajchandra, the Jain Spiritual Thinker of the late eighteen century, was published in 1886. It centers on soul liberating aspirations for the development of true unattachment and supression of all passions.
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Bhavana Bodh contains 10 chapters dealing with various aspirations as of transience, teaching of return, restrainment etc and bondages, shedding of bondages followed each is parable.
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BOOK REVIEWS
For readers interested in spiritual ethics, awareness and conscious, this book will introduce to the subject in a comprehensive way.
The English translation is by D.M.Patel, formerly professor Philosophy at Elphinstone College, Bombay, India.
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Political History of Northern India From Jain Sources Publisher: Sohanlal Jaindharma Pracharak Samiti, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
The Political History of Northern India is accounted here from Jain sources such as literary records and epigraphic studies. It prsents the reconstruction, often the new construction, of the history of various dynasties that ruled northern India from 650 AD. - 1300 A.D. Further more, it deals with many political theories, practices, and makes correlations of ancient names of places with that of the present. The contributions made by Jains on Political Science through the works of Somadeva and Hemachandra are authoritatively accounted.
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The political account in the book begins with the Jain Aihole inscription dated 634 A.D. of King Pulikeshi II to chronicle the Harsha reign in Kanuj. Harivamsha Purana of Jinasens of Wardhamana Nagar in Kathaivar narrates the contemporary kings in 783 A.D. and provides an unbroken geneology of Jain teachers after the death of Lord Mahavir onwards upto Gupta dynasty. The account of Rashtrakutas in the south during 783 A.D. to Gurjara Pratiharas during 778 918 A.D. is elaborative. The importance of the inscription of 959 A.D.brings out that the earliest Jain Poet Pampa, of Kannada language, hailed from Gurjara Prathihara lineage
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Various Jain souces exhaustively throw light on Gahadvala dynasty upto 1172 A.D.after Gurjara Prathiharas. Similarly the Senas of Bengal, who sprang from Karnataka in the south, have been chronicled upto 12th centuary. The Mulgunda inscription of 902-5 A.D. gives an account of a Jain teacher, Kanakasena of Sena lineage, who was given grants in trust for Jain Chaityalaya. The Candellas, the Paramaras Kacchapaghatas, the of central India, the Cahamanas of Rajasthan, the Vaghelas of Saurashtra are thus chronicled upto 13th centuary.