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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Jaina Literature. In the Uvasaga-dasão (end of the 4th or the beginning of the 3rd cent. B.c.), the doctrine of Gosāla Mankha-putta is referred to (Lecture VI and 166). Gosāla's father was mankha (Citra-phalaka vyagraviksu višeşah) i.e. a kind of mendicant that tries to extract clms by showing these pictures of deities, which he carries about with him.
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P. K. GODE-A Review of H. R. Kapadia's - A History of the Canonical Literature of the Jainas --Surat, 1941 (N.I.A. vol. 5 of 1942-43).
Pp. 255-256. Besides Preface and 'Analysis', the author gives in seven chapters valuable material dealing with-(1) the Genesis of the Jaina scriptures, (2) the classifications of the Agamas, (3) Redaction of the Jaina Canon, (4) Extinct Agamas of the Jainas, (5) Extant Agamas of the Jainas, (6) Canonical exegetical literature and (7) Comparison and Evaluation.
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JAGAN NATH-The Hūnas in India. (N.I.A. Vol. 5, 1942-43).
P. 252. Different scholars have identified Kalki with different historical persons. Dr. K. P. JAYASWAL attempted on the authority of Jain accounts to identify Kalki with Yasodharman (I.A. 1917. p. 145), Mr. PATHAK identified him with Mihirakula (1.A. 1918 P. 9) and Mr. K. G. SANKAR wants us to believe that Kalki is none else but Toramana (New Indian Antiquary IV, Pp. 36-42). The Jain tradition about Kalki is self contradictory and untrustworthy (I.H.B BHIDEI.A. Vol. 48 (1919) Pp. 123-128).
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Dhirendra Nath MOOKHERJEE -The KỊla Era, (N.I.A. Vol. 5, 1942-43).
Pp. 230 & 232. According to Jaina tradition Mahāvīra attained Nirvāna, three years and sɔme mont'ı3 before the close of the fourth age called Dussamā Susamă in the great period called Avasarpini. As Mahävira attained Nirvāna in 528 B.C., the Dussama Susama period ended in 525 B.c. from which date the Dussama age began From Ganabhadra's Uttarapurāņa (The age of the early Guptas by Dr. SyaMASASTRI--An Rep. of My. As. Dept. 1923) we know that when one thousand years of the Dussama age had elapsed there was born a Kalki in Pataliputra in a Mahämägha year. Now a thousand years from 525 B.C. leads us to A.D. 475.
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