Jainas in History of Indian Literature

Author(s): Jinvijay
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown

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term gåndhivigrahika ( Rājatarangini IV; 137, 711; VI 320; VIII, 1304; 2427 ):
. Among the “Miscellanea”. of this chapter we find also such things as a list of faults în poetry (Fonet atat:), eight kinds of poets, the good qualities of singing, music and dance (iftaen jön, are TOTT:, TOUT:).
But I must stop here. I think, these gleanings will suffice to show what an interesting book Somdeva's Nītivākyāmrta is, and that it would well deserve to be critically edited and translated.
An edition of Hemacandra's Laghvarhannitiśāstra was published at Ahmedabad 1906.? This is an extract of a larger work in Prākrit the Brhadarhannītisāstra which Hemacandra had composed for King Kumāra pala of Gujarat. Only in a few passages the work proves itself as being composed by a Jaina.
Thus in the chapter on war. Though war is not prohibited, yet the King is warned not to enter upon war, before all other means against the enemy have been tried. And when war has been determined on, the King should take care that it should not cause too much loss of lives, and such humane rules as the following are given: “He should not fight with too crude, nor with poisoned, nor with hidden weapons, nor with such as are heated in fire, nor with stones and clods." 1 A new edition of the Nitivtkyāmrta has meanwhile
been published at the Nirnaya Bagar Press, Bombay. 2 J. Hortel ha's first drawn attention to this work
(Tantrākhyāyoka Transl., Vol. 1, p. 157).