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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Harisatya BHATTACHARYYA--Heroes of the Jaina Legends. (Jain. Ant., Vol. XV, No. I), Arrah, 1949. Pp. 14 to 23.
Kulakaras -are said to have been the most enlightened men of their times and great friend philosophers and guides of the human society. Parallel to the Vedic conception of the fourteen 'Manu's the Jaina legends give the descriptions of fourteen Kulakaras. Various stages of the progress of the early human race traced with the help of the successive Kulakaras. The Jain account presents the human society in its most primitive state concievable, viz., in the stage when it scarcely distinguishable from a heard of beasts.
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K. K. HANDIQUI-Yaśastilaka and Indian Culture. Sholapur, 1949. Pp. viii—540.
It deals with some aspects of Jainism and Indian thought and culture in the tenth century A.D. based on Somadeva's Yaśastilaka, a masterpiece of literature. It gives the pathetic story of Prince Yośodhara in a realistic manner based on a domestic tragedy, around which is woven a story of moral and religious edification.
Contents
Somadeva and his age (959 A.D.), Synopsis of raśastilaka and its sources ; Yaša stilaka—as a Prose Romance, as a Socio-Political record, as a Religious Romance, as an Anthology of Sanskrit verse ; Philosophical doctrines and schools of thought. Jaina Dogmatics and Moral and spiritual discipline; the Anuprekşas (ponderings) and Jaina Religious Poetry ; a controversial dialogue on the subject of animal sacrifice; Jainism and other faiths; Jaina criticism of vedic sacrifices ; Non-Jaina cults, customs and Beliefs ; Jaina religious and moral stories; Myths and legends : Quotations and references.
Appendix
Somadeva and the Pratihāra court of Kanauj ; the verses on the courtezan's corpse and a Buddhist legend ; Saiva temples and their geographical distribution ; the Kalamukha sect; geographical names ; General index.
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