Jaina System of Education

Author(s): Debendra Chandra Das Gupta
Publisher: Bharti Mahavidyalaya

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JAINA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
monasteries again deserve special notice on account of their complete ness and excellent organization and cosmopolitan nature of the Ideals
The Jama monasteries were widely distributed all over India and in their distribution the influence of geographical factors are cicarly perceptible We give below an illustrative list of the outstanding monasteries in India In Bengal Pundravardhana 15 and the then coastal city of Tāmralıpta 10 (now Tamluk an obscure sub-division of Midna pur district in Bengal) as well as Champaka"and RajagȚha" in Magadha were important centres of Jaina culture and learning Benares 16 Sravastı 30 Alabhiya (Alora) Manivaiya > Kampılya ** (Kampıl in Farokhabad Dist. U P) Ujjain 't on the bank of the Siprā hşıtıpratishthapura " on the bank of the Godavari Kollaga * a su burb of Vaisalı Paņiyabhumi hummagama > Salakotthaya Cheiya in the suburb of Ilıdhiyagama >> and in west India Nandanavana® in thu
15 Divyávadána, cdited by E. B Cowell M.A. And R. A Neil, M.A. P 427
16 Maurice Bloomfield, The Life And Stories of The Jaina Savior Priva nátha, p 168
16b Ibid p 70. Mahâbhârata vol vi edited by Handas Siddhantavagu, D. 780 versc, 169 18 Nirayavaliydo edited by 4 S Gopanı M.A. and V j Chokshi B.A. PÅ VETBC 2 19. Ibid p 6g verse go
20 Ibid p 6g verse, 81 21 The Uvasagadasło vol ii tr by A. F Rudolf Hoernlc, Ph.D., P 103
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22 Nirayávallydo cdited by A. S Gopanı M.A., and V J Chokshi, B.A. P111 verke, 143
29 Uvasagadasho vol il p 106 16g
232. Cunninghan : Ancient Gcography edited by Surendra Nath Majumder M.A. P 104
24. Hanbhadra Süri Samariicca Kahl, ur by M C. Noli M.A LLB., p 88.
25. Amara Candra Suri Padmånanda Mahakaya, cdited by H R Kapadia, p. 15 verse 1
25a. Haribhadra Suri op dit. P 39 20 Uvasagadasło p 166 rense 267 27 Ibid appendix p. : aja. Jaina Sutras, part I tr by Hermann Jacobi p 264 28 Uvisagadasło appendix, p 2 29 Ibid p 10. 30, Niravavaliyao p 135