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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Faddegon Barned--the Pravacana-sära of Kunda-Kunda Ācārya, together with the commentary, Tattva-dipikā, by Amrtacandra Süri-English Translation by BARNED Fuddegon, Edited with an Introduction by F.W. THOMAS. Cambridge, 1935.
Pp. I-XXIV & 1-127. The translators's Preface, Introduction, Translation, Gathās given only in the Talparya-vrtti; Appendix to the T'attva-dipika; Eulogy attached to the Tattva-dipikā; Eulogy belonging to the Tälparyavşlti; Division of the Pravacana-sära, as indicated in the Tattva-dipika; Index.
The Pravacana-sāra, 'Essence of the Scripture' (or of the Doctrine', since Pravacana does not necessarily imply writing), is an early and authoritative Jain text in Prākrit Gātha--stanzas, embodying the teaching of the Digambara sect.
The author of the Irākrit stanzas, Kunda-kunda, is held in very high esteem among the Jainas.
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V. S. AGRAWALA-India as known to Pāṇini. Lucknow, 1953.
P. 381. Maskarin (Maskari Gosāla) Founder of the Ajivika, order and a contemporary of Buddha. According to Patañjali "A Maskarin is not so called because there is a maskara (bamboo staff) in this hand. Do not perform actions, but seek peace as highest end" i.e. Philosophy of inaction; a Determinist who ascribed every cause to fate or destiny (niyati).
P. 383. In the canonical scriptures of the Jains, Makkhali Gosāla mentioned as Gosāla Mankhaliputta.
P. 455. Mahāvira, junior contemporary of Buddha.
Pp. 463.64. Hāthigumpha inscription dated in the year 165 of the era of Raja Muriya refers to Nandaraja in connection with a canal excavated by him 300 years earlier. Another passage records that king Nanda carried away to Magadha the statue of the first Jina. Khāravela testifies that king Nanda was ruling in 465 B.C. and the form is also supported by the Jaina tradition.
P. 474. Paņini a contemporary of the Nanda King named Mahānandamiddle of the fifth century B.C.
Pp. 492-93. Jainendra Vyakarana of Pūjyapāda Devanandi (C. 550 - 600 A d.) of which the Gana-patha is preserved in the Mahavritti of Abhayanandi.
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