Jaina System of Education

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

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LECTURE III
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suburb of Bāravai (Dwaraka), Polāsapua, 91 Pātālapura, 2 Moderapura,'3 Sähunihävihāia,?' in the city of Bhigupuia (modein Broach) in the neighbourhood of Naumadā, Vaidhamāna," and in the southein India in thc uith century Konkonapuli, 90 Kopana"7 Siavana Belgolā, 39 Pombucca" (modern Humcca), Ballıgāmc,a" Anchāntamata," Kuppaāūt in the Sohrab tālulat, Banavasenād,- Heggaiet? (about seven miles from Bulıyū in thc Chitaldioog district), Suingeri, Kolhāpur,45 Bandanıkcin (also variously known as Bāndhavanagaia and Bāndhavapura), Dorasamudia,47 Arasıyalere, 18 (a famous scat of Jama culture in the Karnālaha country), were all noted as centres of Jainism in ancient and mediaeval India The Jaina monasteries sprang up all over India in small towns and villages, devoting themselves to the diffusion of light-religious, academic and practical to liain up their alumni for diverse vocations of life
As we have noted above, the sites of the Jaina monasteries were selected in consideration of many geogi aphical factois, all calculateu to increase the accessibility and popularity of the centres of education We notice below somewhat in detail the geographical factors exercising
31 Uvāsagadasão, vol 11, p 140, para 212 32 Rājaśckhara Sūri, Prabandhakosa, vol 1, p 26 33 Ibid, LOC Cit
34 Merutunga Ācārya, Prabandhacıntamani, vol I, tr, by C H Tawney, MA, P 136
35 Ibid, p 134
36 Bhashcr Anand Salctoie, MA, PhD, D Phil, Mediaeval Jainis P 191
37 Ibid, p 192 38 Ibid, p 193 39 Ibid, p 200 40 Ibid, p 202 41 Ibid, p 204 42 Ibid, p 205 43 Ibid, p 205 44 Saletore, op cit p 206. 45 Ibid, p 206 46 Ibid, p 207 47 Ibid, p 209, p 211 48. Ibid, p 214