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Pp. 839-854. Tantrism has a hoary antiquity, belief in magic and witchcraft is primitive and the use of charms, amulets etc. was universal from very early times; worship of symbolical diagrams traced from Vedic terms; Mahavira believed in supernatural powers, which he called Rddhis Labdhis; Gods possess powers of transformation and supernatural cognition, powers of amarasausadhi, vikriya-labdhi, carana saints can move in space; Vidyanupravada-purana dealt with powerful vidyas; in the 2nd or 3rd century B.c. Jainism knew of both the pure and the impure form of mantras and Vidyas; evidence of the growth of the Jain Tantra in the early centuries of the Christian era supplied by the Panmacarium of Vimala Suri; before the 3rd or the 4th century of the Christian era, Jainism had a Tantra of its own based upon ancient traditions.
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The fifth Jain anga, popularly known as the Bhagavatisütra is entitled Viahapannalți. The Standpoint of Jainism as presented in the Bhagavati is in no way different from that in other texts of the Jaina Agama.
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K. K. HANDIQui-Yasastilaka And Indian Culture (Or Somadeva's Yasastilaka and Aspects of Jainism and Indian Thought and Culture in the Tenth Century), Pp. VIII 540. Sholapur, 1949.
Contents Prefaces; Somadeva and his age; Synopsis of Yasastilaka; the story of Yasodhara and its Sources; Yasastilaka as a Prose Romance-as a socio-political record as a Riligious Romance-as an Anthology of Sanskrit Verse; Philosophical Doctrines; schools of Thought; Jains Dogmatics and moral and spiritual discipline; the Anupreksas and Jaina Religious Poetry; a controversial dialogue; Jainism and other faiths; Jaina criticism of Vedic sacrifices; non-Jaina cults, customs and beliefs; Jaina religious and moral stories; myths and legends; quotations and references. Appendix: Somadeva and the Pratihāra Court of Kanauj; the verses in the cour tesan's corpse and a Buddhist Legend; Saiva temples and their Geographical Distribution; the Kälämukha sect. Index of Geographical names mentioned in Talastilaka, General index.
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