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H. JACOBI--Eine Jaina-Dogmatik'. Umasvati's Tattvarthadhigama Sutra "ubersetzt und erlautert' (zeitschrift der deutschen morgenlandischen Gesellschaft, vol. LX. Pp. 287-325 and 512-551). Leipzig, 1906.
Translation of 'Tattvärthādhigama' accompanied by a rich and copious commentary. The text is recalled. On the whole, this publication constitutes one of the most important contributions to the knowledge of the Jaina doctrines.
Introduction-Authority of Umàsvāti among the Jains. His Tattvårthādhigama has become in some way a dogmatic breviary. Biographical review on Umāsvāti. He was born at Nyaggrodhikāgrāma. The accounts on his period are very divergent. Chronological notes according to the commentators of Umāsvāti. He must have lived before the 6th century of the Christian era, perhaps even at the end of the 4th century. The works of Umāsväti.
Translation of the Tattvürthādhigama.
Ch. I. The real faith. The fundamental truth. The knowledge and its five species.
Ch. II. The soul and its essence. The animate beings, their diverse categories and their general characteristics.
Ch. III. The hell.
The continents and the seas, Men,
Ch. IV. The gods. Ch. V. The non-living being. The substances. Ch. VI. Of the karma in general.
Ch. VII. Moral presceiptions. The sins.
Ch. VIII. Details on the karma : its diverse species. Ch. IX. Moral discipline. Ch. X. The deliverance. Index of the words,
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