Mahavira and his Teaching

Author(s): C C Shah, Rishabhdas Ranka, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: Bhagwan Mahavir 2500th Nirvan Mahotsava Samiti

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16.4. There exist also other didactic? Jaina poems, as well as other numerous writings which contain intermingled 1. As well as some Jaina subhāşıta-sangraha-s not discussed in detail in the
present study. Cf. p. 55, fn. 2. Also worth noting are:
the Upa i esa mālā pra ka rana (Uva ēs a in āla), a didactic collection of stray verses by Dharma da sa; this collection contains 544 Prākrit stray verses comprising amplified brief teachings by Mahāvīra for laymen and monks, probably from the eighth century (published in Ahmedabad in 1878; in the Jaina Dharma Prasaraka Sabha in 1915, by L. P. TESSITORI in GSAI 25; 167-297; and with commentaries of Siddharşı and Rāmavijaya Gani in Jamnagar in 1936. (Cf. M. A. GUERINOT in JA, s. 10; t. 14; No. 893);
the Silova esa mālā of Jay a kirti, a pupil of Jayasımha containing 116 Prākrit gåtha-s to which Somatılaka Sūri wrote a commentary in A.D. 1337;
the PūJ y a pāda 's Istopades a and Sa mādh is a ta ka; these are collections of stray verses on Jaina ethics (the first was published in Sanatana Jaina Granthamålā; 19-20; with Hindi and English translations in Allahabad 1925; in Stotrasamgraha No. 16, published by the Digambara Jaina Grantha Bhandar, Gucchaka 1, Benares and with Hindi word for word interpretation in Farnamitra, Vol. XXIII, Sürat 1923; the second was edited in the Sanātana Jaina Granthamala No 20, Calcutta 1922 and translated into English by CHAMPAT RAI JAIN, Hardoi 1925,
Haribh a dra Sûri's thirty-two Aşta kän 1-s, poems of 8 verses each on Jaina doctrine (Haribhadra by birth was a Brahmin; he was instructed in Jaina doctrine by Jinabhata, among others, he also wrote a Prākrit collection of 1040 gåtha-s, the U pade sa pa da (the first was published in Sürat in 1918 and the second, partly with a Hindi translation, in Bhavnagar in 1909; Cf. P. PETERSON, Three Reports (1884-86); pp. 34 sqq. and 46).
Jaina Vairāgya - Ś ata ka of Śri Gulāla candra containing 100 verses being "teachings regarding renunciation according to Jainism” (published in English translation by Lala Bihari Lal at Bulandshahar; M. Harprasad Press in 1910). The “teachings are with exception of some verses (e.g. 1, 13, 18, 46, 65 and the latter part of