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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
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A. N, UPADHYE-The Lesya Doctrine-Views of Leumann, Jacobi & Baruahexamimed-(A.I.O.C. Session VII; 1933). Pp. 391-398.
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A. N. UPADHYE-rapaniya Sangha- A Jaina Sect. (The J.U.B., 1, 4, Pp. 224-31, Bombay, May, 1933).
The Jaina church was subjected to many schismatic divisions almost from the days of Mahāvira.
Even in the main divisions of Svetambara and Digambara there have been many subdivisions which are noted in this paper. Here are discussed many details about the Yapanlya Sangha which is often mentioned in epigraphic records. The traditional origin of this sect, is narrated; and it is shown how this was criticised by both Svetämbaras and Digambaras.
Epigraphic references show that the monks of the rapaniya Sangh lived in Karnataka and its bordering districts from the 5th to the 14th century A.D. It is concluded that the Yapaniyas were absorbed among the Digambaras in the South. Sākatāyana, the Sanskrit grammarian, belonged to this Sangha. In order to facilitate further studies the teachers of this Sangha are listed alphabetically.
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A. N. UPADHYE--A Mss. of Varängacarita. (Annals of the B.O.R.I., XIV, 1-2, Pp. 61-79, Poona, 1933).
It was stated some twenty years back that Ravişeņa (A.D. 677) had composed a Varāngacarita besides his Padmacarita. This interpretation of the verse in question was wrong; and it is shown with fresh evidence that Jațila was the author of the Varāngacarita. Jațila, Jațācārya and Jațāsimha nandi are the names of one and the same author who can be put in the 7th century AD, at the latest. It is shown that Jinasena has taken much material from the Varāngacarita for his Mahāpurāņa; and that this is perhaps one of the earliest epic Kāvyas of the Jainas From the Koppala inscription, it is clear that Jațācārya belonged to that part of South India. There is one more Varāngacarita in Sanskrit by Vardhamāna (13th century A D.); and there is also a Kannada Varängacarita by Dharani P.ndita (16th century AD.).
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