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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1569
Pp. 300-312. Liberty of the Jaina women to take the life of asceticism.
Trishaşți shalākā charitam-the Jātaka story book of the Jains mentions Nirnamikā a forsaken ugly maiden having audiance with Yugandhara Rishi and her asceticism.
Mention of 14,000 Sadhus, 46,000 Sadhuis, 159,000 Shrāvakas and 3,18,000 Shravikās at the time of Mahävira (c.f. Chicago Prashnottari Pp. 176). Chandanahead of the order of female ascetics. Chandanā daughter of king Dadhivāhana of Champā. Mention of female Jain ascetic Pusrpchūlā with 38,000 in Kalpasūtta. Number of female ascetics greater than males referred to in Kalpasūtta. Mahā Suvratā. Arya Pakshini and Rājimati ---a few Jain nuns. Religious status of a Jain woman better than that of her Buddhist sister-status of women in Svetāmbara school discussed. The 19th Tirthankara owing to deceitfulness in previous life was born as a woman-his doing of twenty things that make a Tirthankara be born a Tirthankara with feminine characteristics. Uniformity of rule for Jain monks and nuns laid down in Achārānga sūtra.
No Nirvāna to women according to Digambara school. Division of Jains into Shvetambaras and Digambaras in 72 A.D. (Dr. HOERNLE) or 142 A.D. according to Shvetambaras. Legendary story as to the origin of the above division of the Jains mentioned. Position of women ascetics in Jainism fully described. Social status of the Jain and Hindu women of ancient times discussed.
Mahāvīra's views regarding women. Jain scriptures always claim a superiority of the males to females. Mention of Sulasă and Revati pious Jain women, Status of the Women in Jain law books discussed. Bhadrabahu samhitā an authoritative Jain law book. Power of Jaina women over adoption and over her Strādhana discussed. Staus of a Jain daughter and a Jain widow narrated.
1957
Atindra Nath Bose-Social and Rural Economy in Northern India, 600 B.C. to 209 A.D. Calcutta, 1942.
P.11. Geographical divisions of India according to the Jain Bhagvati.
P. 33. Kāravela's Hāthigumphā inscription proves that the queen consort and queen Mother had their own estates out of which assignments of revenue could be made.
P. 59. Description of communal amusement in Jaina Sutras.
Pp. 68-9. Ahimsa not invented by Mahāvīra but can be traced in the Vedas and the earliest Samritis.
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