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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A. WEBER-Uber das Uttamacaritrakathankam, die Geschichte vom Prinzen Trefflichest. Berlin, 1884 (Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften).
INTRODUCTION
General characters of the narrative. The manuscripts. Period of the redaction : end of the 15th century. Contents : adventures of all sorts serving as illustration to the Jain doctrine. The language and the vocabulary. Text of the narrative. Translation. Bibliographical notes and additional comparatives.
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A. WEBER-Ueber die heiligen Schriften der faina (Indische Studien, vol. XVI, Pp. 211-479. et vol. XVII, Pp. 1-90). Leipzig, 1883-1885.
An all-round survey on the Jaina canonical treatises, with the following subdivisions : The ideas of the tradition on the Jaina canon. Account of Hemacandra concerning the loss of the ‘Purvas' 11-14. The three degrees of the doctrine. The writers. The oral tradition. The uniformity of the canonical books. The lost treatises. The actual state of canon. The modifications of the text. The language. The date of the writing. Origin of the Jainas: they constitute one of the most ancient sects of Buddhism.
Systematic analysis of the canonical treatises : Angas.-The 12th anga. Its agreements with the first eleven. The grouping of the angas. Particular study of each of them : contents, historical ideas, commentaries etc. Upangas.The 12 upangas in general : their agreements, their classification. Individual analysis.
Prakirņas (Painnas).--The 10 paiņņas ; their different enumerations. A special and very rapid analysis. Chedasūtras. The 6 chedasūtras ; generalities, ideas of the tradition, age etc. the work of Bhadrabāhu. Detailed analysis of each of these chedasūtras. The 'Kalpasūlra'. The Nandisutra'. The 'Anuyogadvārasūtra Mülasūtras.--The 4 mūlasütras ; generalities. Analysis of each of them, and especially of the 'Uttaradhyayana' and of the Avasyaka'. Review on some other treatises, particularly on the Oghaniryukti. List of the lost texts.
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