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III. Four Prakaraṇas
John E. Cort
1. Jivavicara of Säntisüri
2. Navatattva
3. Dandaka (24 kinds of jivas)
4. Sangrahani (slokas by Haribhadra on geography and astronomy)
IV. Tribhasyas by Devendrasūri
1. Caityavandana
2. Guruvandana
3. Paccakkhana (fasting, vows, not sallekhanā)
V. Six Karmagranthas
VI. Two Brhadsangrahaṇīs
1. Maladhārī Candrasuri (most read)
2. Jinabhadra
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VII. Two Bṛhadṣetrasamāsas (different authors)
VIII. Tattvärthadhigamasutra
There is no evidence that Folkert followed up on this list, except for his unfinished research on pratikramana. In this essay I will fill in that gap, by surveying why it is that a respected Jain monk-intellectual might present this as a curriculum for lay Jain study. This list forms what in another. context I have termed a "Canon-near", in contrast to the usual sets of texts studied by scholars of Jainism, which in some ways form "Canons-far." As I defined these two concepts, "In a Canon-near text, primacy and authority are defined by praxis and the resultant contextualized understanding, whereas in a Canon-far text primacy and authority are located in some intrinsic ontological value of the texts themselves" (Cort 1992 175). While I doubt if any but a very small number of Jain laity actually study these texts, for the list is really much closer to what one. would expect of a curriculum for either mendicants or lay pandits, it nonetheless provides us with a textual entrée into Jainism that is an alternative to the usual ones of the 45 Svetambara Agamas or other such lists.
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