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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
Appendix.-List of the Jain manuscripts of the Royal Library of Berlin.
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G. THIBAUT-On the Suryaprajñapti, (JASB, vol. XLIX, Pp. 107-127, and 181206). Calcutta, 1880.
Account of the review of COLEBROOKE and of the analysis of WEBER. Generalities on the Suryaprajñapti). Technical and systematical study of the work after the subjects discussed, with comparative ideas: The theory of the two suns, the two moons, and the two systems of constellations. The astronomic-chronological period; the juga or quin-quennial cycle; the lunar months. The revolution of the sun and the moon; the solstice; the nakşatras; the length of the day; the rapidity of the sun in the different circles that it travels; the rise and the setting of the sun. The doctrine of the trapksetra, that is to say of the part of Jambudvipa which is lighted each day by two suns. The moon; her revolutions; the place that it occupies at different periods in the circle of the naktatras. Connections of the moon and of the sun in their revolutions. Relative rapidity of the moon, of the sun and of the stars.
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Details on the nakṣatras-Calculations in view of the determination of the place of the moon and of the sun, and calculations of the time in general. Connections of the Jaina astronomy with that of the Buddhists, the system of the Puranas and the chinese theory explained in the 'Tcheoupei".
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H. JACOBI-Das Kalakacārya-Kathānakam, (Zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vol. XXXIV, Pp. 247-318). Leipzig, 1880.
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INTRODUCTION
The 'Kalakacaryakathanaka' must have originated at a very remote time, but the age and the author of it are not known. Language and the general character
of the work. Analytical summary.
Enquiry about the personages of the name of Kalaka. Abstract of the ideas of the following works: Kalpasätra and commentaries, Prajñāpanäsütra; Nandisūtra; Avaiyakasutra. According to these documents there would have been five Kälakas. Historical notes in this matter. Text of the 'Kalakācāryakathānaka'. Translation, Prakrit-Sanskrit glossary.
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