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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
P. 84. Mahāvira issued ordinance for protection of plant life as well as animal life (JACOBI, Jain Sutras, II, p. 357).
P. 95. A Jain SB inscription records a tradition that in Chandragupta Maurya's time a Jain saint prophesied a twelve-year famine in Ujjain and that Chandragupta abdicated and followed the saint.
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Prof. INDRA --The Status of Women. Lahore, 1946.
P. 300. Account of the nun Nirnāmikā.
P. 301. In the life time of Mahāvīra, abrilliant Galaxy of 14,000 Sadhüs, 4,600 Sadhvīs, 1,59,000 Sravakas and 3,18,000 Sravikās was created, account of Canadā, Puspacūlä, Sumanā-Kalpasülra records 20,000 nuns by annihilation of Karmas besides 1,000 male ascetics only were entitled to that exalted position. In the reign of Arhan Aristanemin 3,32,000 women adopted the vow of renunciation and 300 female ascetics reached the goal of emancipation. The account of Mahā Suvratā Arya Rukmini and Rājimati. Räjimati converted her husband to the Jaina faith and made the disciple of Nimiprabha.
P. 302. According to to Svetāmbara tenets women are placed on equal footing with men in the pursuit of religious ideals.
P. 303. With regard to the nineteenth Tirthankara deceitfulness in previous life was the cause of his birth as woman. In Acaränga sutra uniform and alike rules were prescribed for monks and nuns. A childless lay woman yearns to have a piece of cloth of the dead Sadhvi for the hope of getting a son.
P. 304. Kalpasūtra records that aged male ascetic should be bowed with reverence by the younger ascetic but the female ascetic though aged should bowdown to the male ascetic just initiated. Man is senior to women who are consi. dered as Maya. This led the Digambaras to lay down that women never attain nirvāṇa.
P. 305. The story of Sivabhūti , founder of the Digambara sect. The five main differentiation between two rival sects of the Jains as summarised by Mrs. STEVENSON,
P. 306. Woman is declared to be one of twenty-two troubles.
P. 307. Rsbhadeva is said to have taught men 72 arts and women only 64,
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