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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A, WEBER- Das Saptacatakam des Hala. Leipzig, 1881.
Among the manuscripts which have served for the making out of the text, is found a Jaina review, denoted by the letter R. and to which the editor has devoted special study, namely : Introduction, P. XXVIII and XXIX. Generalities on the manuscript which present all the characters of a Jaina manuscript.
Pp. 404–439. Comparative analysis of this review with the text of Vulgata.
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A. Weber--Uber den Kupakshakaurikadi ya des Dharmasāgara, Streitschrift eines orthodoxen Jaina, vom Jahre 1573. Berlin, 1882 (Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussichen Akademic der Wissenschaften).
General notes on the ‘Kupakşakausikāditya' - This work is comprised of 11 chapters. The manuscript of Berlin contains only the first and the end of second. It is accompanied by a commentary composed by Dharmasagara himself. Review on the author, after this commentary and a Gurvävali.
Dharmasāgara had for masters Ānandavimalasűri (Samvat 1547-1596) and Hiravijayasuri (born in Samvat 1583). He composed the 'Kupaksakausikāditya' in Samvat 1629, may be 1573 A.D. Vijayadānasűri (Samvat 1553-1622).
Analysis-The 'Kupakşakauśikāditya' is a polemical treatise against the ten hetrodox sects which originated by the side of the Svetāmbara community, to which Dharmasāgara belonged and which he considers as mere orthodoxy.
List of the Ten Hetrodox Sects
1. Sect Khavanaya. Due to a renovation, towards Samvat 139, of the order of the Digambaras. The doctrine consists of three principal dogmas :
(1) Prescription of the state of nudity;
(2) Exclusion of the women from the final deliverance.
(3) Rejection of a special mode of nourishment for the ascetics.
2. Punnima sect. Founded in Samvat 1159 by Candraprabhācārya.
3. Kharatara sect. Founded in Samvat 1204 by Jinadattācārya.
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