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JAINA BIBLIOGRAPHY
1867
whom the allied forces fought is given as Jina and Sandhodani and the opponents are generally called Bauddhas. Thus the cause of the allies was fully vindicated. It was both a political and a religious conquest that they made. Kalki ousted both Buddhism and Jainism out of the Northern India. Buddhism had to go without an imperial patronage till the days of Asoka and by that time the Brahmanas hadenough time and scope to re-establish their own faith and also to be catholic enough to incorporate some of the essential tenets of Buddhism in their own system, as a result of which Buddhism or Jainism could never take the place of paramount religion in India. Herein lies a link of our religio-political history which is preserved for us in the Kalki Purana.
2775 A. N. UPADHYF.-Jivalattva pradipika on Gommațasāra : Its Author and Date. (I.C., VII,, Pp. 23-33, Calcutta, 1940; also in Hindi, Anekānta, IV, Pp. 113-20, Saharanpur, 1942).
It was all along believed that the author of this Jivatattvapradipika is Keśavavarni, but in this paper by presenting fresh evidence, it is conclusively proved that the author is one Nemicandra, different from the author of the Gommatasóra, who wrote his Sanskrit commentary following Kesavavarni's Kannada commentary. This Nemicandra was a contemporary of Vijayakirti who was honoured by Malli Bhupāla and thus flourished at the beginning of the 16th century AD.
2776 A.N. UPADHYE-Padmaprabha and his commentary on Niyamasāra. (Proc, & Trans. of the A.T.O.C., VIII, Pp. 425-35, Bangalore; Revised and published in the J.U.B., XI, 2, Pp. 100-10, Bombay, 1912).
Padınaprabha has written a Sanskrit commentary on the Niyamasāra of Kundakunda. Some personal details are gathered here from his stray remarks in his commentary. Among the works mentioned by him, it is shown that the Mārgaprakaśn and Srutabindu are not so far discovered and the Tattvānuśāsana known to Padmaprabha was different from that of Rāmasena available today. Padmaprabha is assigned to the last quarter of the 12th century and the first quarter of the 13th century.
2777 T. A. RAMAN---The World Today. India, 1942.
P. 30. Vardhamāna Mahāvīra born about 599 B.C. of royal house of a small state in Bihar, ruled his kingdom till he was thirty and then abdicated in favour of his brother.
P. 31. Jainism never set up a distinct religion nor could its austerities appeal to the masses. Jains accept general principles of Hinduism and are to be considered a reformed sect rathar than a separate religion.
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