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BANERJEE CHRONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF JAIN LITERATURE
Historic Age: The Vedic Period: 1500 B.C. to 7th/6th centuries B.C.
Chronology by centuries
1500-1250 B.C.
1250-1000 B.C.
1000-800 B.C.
900 B.C.
817 B.C.
800-700 B.C.
700-600 B.C.
600-500 B.C.
563-483 B.C.
542-480 B.C.
490-458 B.C.
465 B.C.
365 B.C.-357 B.C.
327-324 B.C.
324-298 B.C.
318-17 B.C.
313 B.C.
298-273 B.C.
273-232 B.C.
187-147 B.C.
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Main Events
Early Vedic Stage: The composition of the Ṛgveda. Middle Vedic Stage: The composition of the first, eighth to the tenth Mandala of the Rgveda; and Samaveda, Yajurveda and Atharvaveda.
Late Vedic Stage: Brāhmaṇas (Aitareya, Satapatha, Taittiriya and others). Ariṣṭanemi (1000 B.C.)
The Mahabharata War.
The traditional date of the birth of Parsvanatha.
Aranyakas
The period of Upanisads: The beginning of ātmavidyā.
The birth of Lord Vardhamana Mahavira (599 B.C.) and Nirvāņa (527 B.C.) The Ajivikas, Gosala Mankhaliputra.
Gautama Buddha
Bimbisāra, King of Magadha.
Ajātaśatru, King of Magadha.
Gautama, Sudharma and Jambusvāmi were the propagators and they all attained Nirvāņa. There were five śruta-kevalins: Vişņunandi, Nandimitra, Aparajita, Govardhana and Bhadrabahu, Bhadrabahu-Kalpasūtra, Niryukti.
Invasion of India by Alexander
Rise of the Maurya Dynasty: The Period of the Maurya Chandragupta (322-298 B.C.)
Thera Bhadrabahu was the head of the community. During the famine, Thera Bhadrabahu went to the south and Sthulabhadra remained in Magadha. Origin of two sects.
Jaina date of the year of Chadragupta's accession, probably as a ruler of Avanti.
Bindusāra.
The Reign of Aśoka. Aśokan edicts. The literature of Asokan Prakrits.
Rise of the Dynasty of Pusyamitrȧ Sunga
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